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North Tierradel Fuego Selknam (c. 500 BP, Argentina)

Argentina_NorthTierradelFuego_Selknam_500BP

North Tierradel Fuego Selknam (c. 500 BP, Argentina) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Argentina_NorthTierradelFuego_Selknam_500BP), with 3 samples from Argentina, dated to c. 1500–1850 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Rio Uncallane (Antiquity, c. 1800 BP), Mitre Peninsula Haush (c. 400 BP, Argentina) and Conchali (Medieval, c. 700 BP, Chile); the nearest living populations are Bolivian La Paz, Aymara and Mixe.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroup is D1g (3).

Period
Ancient
Date
c. 1500–1850 CE
Country
Argentina
Sampled near
Pozo Tierra del Fuego 1 -53.57, -68.04
Sites
Pozo Tierra del Fuego 1
Puesto Pescador
Río Grande
Samples
3
Catalogue
Argentina_NorthTierradelFuego_Selknam_500BP

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
1Rio Uncallane (Antiquity, c. 1800 BP)RioUncallane_1800BP1.58
2Mitre Peninsula Haush (c. 400 BP, Argentina)Argentina_MitrePeninsula_Haush_400BP1.66
3Conchali (Medieval, c. 700 BP, Chile)Chile_Conchali_700BP1.68
4North Tierradel Fuego Selknam (c. 100 BP, Chile)Chile_NorthTierradelFuego_Selknam_100BP1.82
5Yamana Beagle Channel (Medieval, c. 800 BP, Chile)Chile_Yamana_BeagleChannel_800BP1.82
6Colonial Maya (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_Maya1.82
7Fuego PatagonianFuego_Patagonian1.83
8Las Locas Ceramic (Iron Age, Venezuela)Venezuela_LasLocas_Ceramic1.85
9Curacao de Savaan Ceramic (Medieval)Curacao_deSavaan_Ceramic1.88
10Rio Uncallane (Antiquity, c. 1600 BP, Peru)Peru_RioUncallane_1600BP1.92
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Bolivian La PazBolivian_LaPaz2.32
2AymaraAymara2.50
3MixeMixe2.88
4CollaColla2.97
5PiapocoPiapoco2.97
6YukpaYukpa3.02
7CachiCachi3.35
8WichiWichi3.48
9PimaPima3.90
10MayanMayan3.95

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I12354M1420-1630 calCERío GrandeQ1b1a1a Q-M3D1g
I12363M1490-1660 calCEPuesto PescadorQ1b1a1a Q-M3D1g
I12366F1670-1960 calCEPozo Tierra del Fuego 1D1g
I12364 outlierF1040-1280 calCEMargen SurD4h3a
I12367 outlier