Ancient population · Medieval
Guanche (Medieval, Canary Islands)
CanaryIslands_Guanche
Guanche (Medieval, Canary Islands) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (CanaryIslands_Guanche), with 5 samples from Spain, dated to c. 630–1250 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Canary Islands Guanche (Medieval), Morocco (Late Neolithic) · Morocco_LN and Morocco (Late Neolithic) · MAR_LN; the nearest living populations are Moroccan North, Tunisian Berber Tamezret and Berber Tunisia Chen.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include F1a, H2a, L3b and T2c.
- Period
- Medieval
- Date
- c. 630–1250 CE
- Country
- Spain
- Sampled near
- Gran Canaria 31.08, 8.22
- Sites
- Gran Canaria (2)
Tenerife (2)
Gun-Tharmagtai - Samples
- 5
- Catalogue
CanaryIslands_Guanche.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 | Canary Islands Guanche (Medieval)Canary_Islands_Guanche | 1.40 |
| 2 | Morocco (Late Neolithic) · Morocco_LNMorocco_LN | 8.54 |
| 3 | Morocco (Late Neolithic) · MAR_LNMAR_LN | 9.77 |
| 4 | Nazari Period Late Muslim (Medieval, Spain)Spain_NazariPeriod_LateMuslim | 11.33 |
| 5 | Sardinia Punic 1 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_1 | 11.75 |
| 6 | Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian | 14.06 |
| 7 | Islamic Almohade (Medieval, Spain)Spain_Islamic_Almohade | 14.34 |
| 8 | Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod | 14.69 |
| 9 | Hellenistic (Antiquity)Hellenistic | 14.97 |
| 10 | Nazari Period Muslim (Spain)Spain_NazariPeriod_Muslim | 15.23 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moroccan NorthMoroccan_North | 2.37 |
| 2 | Tunisian Berber TamezretTunisian_Berber_Tamezret | 2.50 |
| 3 | Berber Tunisia ChenBerber_Tunisia_Chen | 2.60 |
| 4 | Tunisian Berber ZraouaTunisian_Berber_Zraoua | 3.09 |
| 5 | Tunisian Berber MatmataTunisian_Berber_Matmata | 3.09 |
| 6 | MozabiteMozabite | 3.09 |
| 7 | AlgerianAlgerian | 4.41 |
| 8 | TunisianTunisian | 4.47 |
| 9 | Berber Tunisia SenBerber_Tunisia_Sen | 4.53 |
| 10 | Berber MAR ERRBerber_MAR_ERR | 5.36 |
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.