Ancient population · Bronze Age
CA Early San Nicolas (Bronze Age)
CA_Early_SanNicolas
CA Early San Nicolas (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (CA_Early_SanNicolas), with 5 samples from United States, dated to c. 3440–2520 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to San Nicolas E (Bronze Age), Yamana (Medieval, c. 1000 BP) and CA LSCI (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Mixe, Huichol and Pima.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include A2cb (2), A2 and A2ca.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 3440–2520 BCE
- Country
- United States
- Sampled near
- San Nicolas Island 33.25, -119.50
- Samples
- 5
- Published in
- ScheibKivisildScience2018
- Catalogue
CA_Early_SanNicolas.SGvariant
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 | San Nicolas E (Bronze Age)San_Nicolas_E | 0.66 |
| 2 | Yamana (Medieval, c. 1000 BP)Yamana_1000BP | 1.97 |
| 3 | CA LSCI (Medieval)CA_LSCI | 2.06 |
| 4 | Nevada Spirit Cave (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 11000 BP)Nevada_SpiritCave_11000BP | 2.09 |
| 5 | Yamana Beagle Channel (Medieval, c. 800 BP, Chile)Chile_Yamana_BeagleChannel_800BP | 2.11 |
| 6 | CA San Cruz Island Chumash (Medieval)CA_SanCruz_IslandChumash | 2.12 |
| 7 | Western Archipelago Ayayema (Bronze Age, c. 5100 BP, Chile)Chile_WesternArchipelago_Ayayema_5100BP | 2.13 |
| 8 | Island Chumash San Cruz (Medieval)Island_Chumash_SanCruz | 2.15 |
| 9 | Laguna Chica (Neolithic, c. 6800 BP, Argentina)Argentina_LagunaChica_6800BP | 2.19 |
| 10 | San Catalina Island (Medieval)San_Catalina_Island | 2.21 |
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.