Ancient population · Iron Age
Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)
Botswana_Xaro_EIA
Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Botswana_Xaro_EIA), with 2 samples from Botswana, dated to c. 850 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to South Africa (c. 400 BP), Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP) and Colonial African (Mexico); the nearest living populations are Bantu S E, Bantu S W and Makhuwa.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include L0k and L3e.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 850 CE
- Country
- Botswana
- Sampled near
- Xaro -18.42, 21.89
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- WangSchiffelsSciAdv2020
- Catalogue
Botswana_Xaro_EIA
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 | South Africa (c. 400 BP)South_Africa_400BP | 8.76 |
| 2 | Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Taukome_1100BP | 10.15 |
| 3 | Colonial African (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_African | 11.84 |
| 4 | Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Pemba_600BP | 12.33 |
| 5 | Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric | 12.70 |
| 6 | Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_600BP | 12.76 |
| 7 | SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon)Cameroon_SMA | 12.85 |
| 8 | Shum Laka (Iron Age)Shum_Laka | 13.07 |
| 9 | Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric | 13.20 |
| 10 | Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IATanzania_PN_IA | 13.20 |
Haplogroups
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
XAR001 | M | 700-1000 CE | Xaro | E1b1a1a1a1c1a1a3a1d1 E-FT21330 | L3e1a2 |
XAR002 | M | 700-1000 CE | Xaro | E1b1b1b2b2a1 E-Y210504 | L0k1a2 |