Ancient population · Iron Age
SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon)
Cameroon_SMA
SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Cameroon_SMA), with 3 samples from Cameroon, dated to c. 5960–1150 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Shum Laka (Iron Age), Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana) and Kakapel LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya); the nearest living populations are Bedzan, Bakola and Baka.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup B2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include L1c (2) and L0a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 5960–1150 BCE
- Country
- Cameroon
- Origin
- Cameroon
- Sampled near
- Shum Laka 5.86, 10.08
- Samples
- 3
- Published in
- LipsonPrendergastNature2022
- Catalogue
Cameroon_SMA
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 | Shum Laka (Iron Age)Shum_Laka | 0.71 |
| 2 | Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)Botswana_Xaro_EIA | 12.85 |
| 3 | Kakapel LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LSA_Kansyore | 13.00 |
| 4 | MWI Fingira (Iron Age)MWI_Fingira | 13.09 |
| 5 | Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP | 13.10 |
| 6 | Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic)Tanzania_Kisese_LSA | 13.20 |
| 7 | Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IATanzania_PN_IA | 13.30 |
| 8 | Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_15500BP | 13.45 |
| 9 | Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)Hora_9000BP | 13.45 |
| 10 | Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania)TZA_Gishimangeda | 13.49 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.