Ancient population · Chalcolithic
Belize (Chalcolithic, c. 5500 BP)
Belize_5500BP
Belize (Chalcolithic, c. 5500 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Belize_5500BP), with 1 sample from Belize, dated to c. 3530 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Ayayema (Bronze Age, c. 5100 BP), Western Archipelago Ayayema (Bronze Age, c. 5100 BP, Chile) and Las Locas Ceramic (Iron Age, Venezuela); the nearest living populations are Bolivian La Paz, Aymara and Colla.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is C1c.
- Period
- Chalcolithic
- Date
- c. 3530 BCE
- Country
- Belize
- Sampled near
- Mayahak Cab Pek 16.49, -88.91
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- KennettReichNatComm2022
- Catalogue
Belize_5500BP
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 | Ayayema (Bronze Age, c. 5100 BP)Ayayema_5100BP | 1.77 |
| 2 | Western Archipelago Ayayema (Bronze Age, c. 5100 BP, Chile)Chile_WesternArchipelago_Ayayema_5100BP | 1.79 |
| 3 | Las Locas Ceramic (Iron Age, Venezuela)Venezuela_LasLocas_Ceramic | 1.84 |
| 4 | Canimar Abajo Archaic (Medieval, Cuba)Cuba_CanimarAbajo_Archaic | 1.87 |
| 5 | Laguna Chica (Neolithic, c. 6800 BP)LagunaChica_6800BP | 1.90 |
| 6 | Belize (Bronze Age, c. 4600 BP)Belize_4600BP | 1.94 |
| 7 | Colonial Maya (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_Maya | 1.98 |
| 8 | Greater Antilles ArchaicGreater_Antilles_Archaic | 2.06 |
| 9 | Cuncaicha (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP, Peru)Peru_Cuncaicha_9000BP | 2.07 |
| 10 | Cueva Calero Archaic (Iron Age, Cuba)Cuba_CuevaCalero_Archaic | 2.14 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I13267 | F | 3630-3379 calBCE | Mayahak Cab Pek | C1c |