Ancient population · Bronze Age
Belize (Bronze Age, c. 4600 BP)
Belize_4600BP
Belize (Bronze Age, c. 4600 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Belize_4600BP), with 5 samples from Belize, dated to c. 2780–2520 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Las Locas Ceramic (Iron Age, Venezuela), Rio Uncallane (Antiquity, c. 1600 BP, Peru) and Belize (Bronze Age, c. 4900 BP); the nearest living populations are Bolivian La Paz, Aymara and Colla.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include C5b (2), A2 and D4h.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2780–2520 BCE
- Country
- Belize
- Sampled near
- Mayahak Cab Pek 16.50, -88.90
- Sites
- Mayahak Cab Pek (3)
Saki Tzul (2) - Samples
- 5
- Published in
- KennettReichNatComm2022
- Catalogue
Belize_4600BP
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 | Las Locas Ceramic (Iron Age, Venezuela)Venezuela_LasLocas_Ceramic | 1.10 |
| 2 | Rio Uncallane (Antiquity, c. 1600 BP, Peru)Peru_RioUncallane_1600BP | 1.56 |
| 3 | Belize (Bronze Age, c. 4900 BP)Belize_4900BP | 1.58 |
| 4 | Dominican Atajadizo Ceramic (Medieval)Dominican_Atajadizo_Ceramic | 1.66 |
| 5 | Arroyo Seco2 (Neolithic, c. 7700 BP, Argentina)Argentina_ArroyoSeco2_7700BP | 1.68 |
| 6 | Southeast Ceramic (Medieval)southeast_Ceramic | 1.70 |
| 7 | Rio Uncallane (Antiquity, c. 1800 BP)RioUncallane_1800BP | 1.72 |
| 8 | Canimar Abajo Archaic (Medieval, Cuba)Cuba_CanimarAbajo_Archaic | 1.73 |
| 9 | Cueva Calero Archaic (Iron Age, Cuba)Cuba_CuevaCalero_Archaic | 1.73 |
| 10 | Fuego PatagonianFuego_Patagonian | 1.74 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 5
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.