Ancient population · Iron Age
Cueva Calero Archaic (Iron Age, Cuba)
Cuba_CuevaCalero_Archaic
Cueva Calero Archaic (Iron Age, Cuba) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Cuba_CuevaCalero_Archaic), with 2 samples from Cuba, dated to c. 50 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Canimar Abajo Archaic (Medieval, Cuba), Greater Antilles Archaic and Playadel Mango Archaic (Antiquity, Cuba); the nearest living populations are Bolivian La Paz, Aymara and Colla.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is A2 (2).
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 50 BCE
- Country
- Cuba
- Sampled near
- Cueva Calero 23.05, -81.32
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- NägeleSchroederScience2020
- Catalogue
Cuba_CuevaCalero_Archaic
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 | Canimar Abajo Archaic (Medieval, Cuba)Cuba_CanimarAbajo_Archaic | 1.21 |
| 2 | Greater Antilles ArchaicGreater_Antilles_Archaic | 1.30 |
| 3 | Playadel Mango Archaic (Antiquity, Cuba)Cuba_PlayadelMango_Archaic | 1.45 |
| 4 | Colonial Maya (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_Maya | 1.59 |
| 5 | Fuego PatagonianFuego_Patagonian | 1.63 |
| 6 | Kaweskar (Medieval, c. 1000 BP)Kaweskar_1000BP | 1.72 |
| 7 | Belize (Bronze Age, c. 4900 BP)Belize_4900BP | 1.73 |
| 8 | Belize (Bronze Age, c. 4600 BP)Belize_4600BP | 1.73 |
| 9 | Arroyo Seco2 (Neolithic, c. 7700 BP, Argentina)Argentina_ArroyoSeco2_7700BP | 1.76 |
| 10 | Las Locas Ceramic (Iron Age, Venezuela)Venezuela_LasLocas_Ceramic | 1.77 |
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.