Ancient population · Iron Age

Late Unai (Iron Age, Guam)

Name: Late Unai (Iron Age, Guam) (Guam_LateUnai)
Creator: Genoplot

Guam_LateUnai

Late Unai (Iron Age, Guam) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Guam_LateUnai), with 4 samples from Guam, dated to c. 780–680 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Hanben (Iron Age, Taiwan), Mariana Islands Latte and Latte (Medieval, Guam); the nearest living populations are Ami, Atayal and Igorot.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O2a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include E2a (2), E2 and M.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 780–680 BCE
Country: Guam
Sampled near: Naton Beach Site 13.52, 144.81
Samples: 4
Published in: LiuReichScience2022
Catalogue: Guam_LateUnai
Guam_LateUnai_noUDG variant

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.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Hanben (Iron Age, Taiwan)`Taiwan_Hanben_IA`	3.08
2	Mariana Islands Latte`MarianaIslands_Latte`	3.33
3	Latte (Medieval, Guam)`Guam_Latte`	3.40
4	TWN Hanben (Antiquity)`TWN_Hanben`	3.46
5	Late Latte (Medieval, Guam)`Guam_LateLatte`	3.56
6	Gongguan (Bronze Age, Taiwan)`Taiwan_Gongguan`	3.61
7	Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · Vanuatu_2900BP`Vanuatu_2900BP`	3.69
8	Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · 2900BP_all`2900BP_all`	4.09
9	Late Unai Ritidian (Iron Age, Guam)`Guam_LateUnai_Ritidian`	5.13
10	TON (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)`TON_2500BP`	5.14

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Ami`Ami`	2.89
2	Atayal`Atayal`	3.12
3	Igorot`Igorot`	3.40
4	Luzon`Luzon`	4.23
5	Murut`Murut`	5.60
6	Dusun`Dusun`	6.33
7	Hawaiian`Hawaiian`	6.60
8	Vizayan`Vizayan`	7.69
9	Li`Li`	8.63
10	Lebbo`Lebbo`	9.10

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

O2a2b O-F871
O2a2b2a2b O-Y45112

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

E2a 2
E2
M

Individuals 4

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.

Sample	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I16998_noUDG`	`Guam_LateUnai_noUDG`	F	805-761 calBCE	Naton Beach Site		E2
`I18445`	`Guam_LateUnai`	M	795-592 calBCE	Naton Beach Site	O2a2b O-F871	E2a
`I18447_noUDG`	`Guam_LateUnai_noUDG`	F	791-555 calBCE	Naton Beach Site		M
`I18495_noUDG`	`Guam_LateUnai_noUDG`	M	798-597 calBCE	Naton Beach Site	O2a2b2a2b O-Y45112	E2a