Ancient population · Neolithic

Laguna Chica (Neolithic, c. 6800 BP, Argentina)

Argentina_LagunaChica_6800BP

Laguna Chica (Neolithic, c. 6800 BP, Argentina) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Argentina_LagunaChica_6800BP), with 2 samples from Argentina, dated to c. 4920–4760 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Western Archipelago Ayayema (Bronze Age, c. 5100 BP, Chile), Ayayema (Bronze Age, c. 5100 BP) and CA Early San Nicolas (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Pima, Mixe and Bolivian La Paz.

Its mtDNA haplogroups include C1b and R.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 4920–4760 BCE
Country
Argentina
Sampled near
Laguna Chica -36.08, -62.35
Samples
2
Published in
PosthReichCell2018
Catalogue
Argentina_LagunaChica_6800BP

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.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Western Archipelago Ayayema (Bronze Age, c. 5100 BP, Chile)Chile_WesternArchipelago_Ayayema_5100BP1.89
2Ayayema (Bronze Age, c. 5100 BP)Ayayema_5100BP1.89
3CA Early San Nicolas (Bronze Age)CA_Early_SanNicolas2.19
4San Nicolas E (Bronze Age)San_Nicolas_E2.20
5Belize (Chalcolithic, c. 5500 BP)Belize_5500BP2.27
6Punta Santa Ana (Neolithic, c. 7300 BP, Chile)Chile_PuntaSantaAna_7300BP2.30
7Island Chumash San Cruz (Medieval)Island_Chumash_SanCruz2.30
8Yamana (Medieval, c. 1000 BP)Yamana_1000BP2.34
9Canimar Abajo Archaic (Medieval, Cuba)Cuba_CanimarAbajo_Archaic2.35
10Arroyo Seco2 (Neolithic, c. 7700 BP, Argentina)Argentina_ArroyoSeco2_7700BP2.39
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1PimaPima2.88
2MixeMixe2.96
3Bolivian La PazBolivian_LaPaz3.17
4CollaColla3.20
5CachiCachi3.23
6HuicholHuichol3.34
7MayanMayan3.38
8ZapotecZapotec3.40
9MixtecMixtec3.58
10NahuaNahua3.61

Haplogroups

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
I8348F5010-4840 calBCELaguna ChicaR
I8349F4830-4700 calBCELaguna ChicaC1b