Ancient population · Medieval

Cairns (Medieval, c. 420 BP)

Cairns_420BP

Cairns (Medieval, c. 420 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Cairns_420BP), with 1 sample from Queensland, Australia, dated to c. 1100 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mapoon (Medieval, c. 112 BP), Willandra Lakes (Medieval, c. 4000 BP) and Barham 1600BP-1400BP (Antiquity); the nearest living populations are Australian, Nasoi and Papuan Highland B.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup S; its mtDNA haplogroup is P12b.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1100 CE
Country
Australia
Origin
Queensland, Australia
Sampled near
Cairns -19.95, 147.04
Samples
1
Catalogue
Cairns_420BP

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.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1AustralianAustralian2.11
2NasoiNasoi8.98
3Papuan Highland BPapuan_Highland_B9.02
4KosipeKosipe18.61
5PapuanPapuan20.78
6KoinanbeKoinanbe20.84
7Papuan Highland APapuan_Highland_A21.39
8JarawaJarawa39.55
9OngeOnge39.70
10AgtaAgta42.24

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

  • S S-Y26122

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
PA86M400-1800 CECairnsS S-Y26122P12b