Ancient population · Iron Age
Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · 2900BP_all
2900BP_all
Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · 2900BP_all is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (2900BP_all), with 3 samples from Shefa, Vanuatu, dated to about 995 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to TON (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP), Latte (Medieval, Guam) and Late Latte (Medieval, Guam); the nearest living populations are Luzon, Igorot and Atayal.
Its mtDNA haplogroups include B4a (2) and R.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- about 995 BCE
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Origin
- Shefa, Vanuatu
- Sampled near
- Teouma -17.79, 168.37
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- LipsonReichCurrBiol2018
- Catalogue
2900BP_all
Nearest populations
Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TON (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)TON_2500BP | 3.13 |
| 2 | Latte (Medieval, Guam)Guam_Latte | 3.18 |
| 3 | Late Latte (Medieval, Guam)Guam_LateLatte | 3.25 |
| 4 | Mariana Islands LatteMarianaIslands_Latte | 3.35 |
| 5 | TWN Hanben (Antiquity)TWN_Hanben | 3.53 |
| 6 | Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)Tonga_2700BP | 3.85 |
| 7 | Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)Tonga_2500BP | 3.87 |
| 8 | Hanben (Iron Age, Taiwan)Taiwan_Hanben_IA | 3.88 |
| 9 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · Vanuatu_2900BPVanuatu_2900BP | 4.05 |
| 10 | Late Unai (Iron Age, Guam)Guam_LateUnai | 4.09 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.