Ancient population · Neolithic
Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)
Hora_9000BP
Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Hora_9000BP), with 1 sample from Northern Region, Malawi, dated to about 7005 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi), Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi) and MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age); the nearest living populations are Hadza, Bakola and Bedzan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup B2b; its mtDNA haplogroup is H2a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- about 7005 BCE
- Country
- Malawi
- Origin
- Northern Region, Malawi
- Sampled near
- Hora -11.66, 33.64
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- SkoglundReichCell2017
- Catalogue
Hora_9000BP
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 | Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Chencherere_LSA_5200BP | 4.10 |
| 2 | Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_8500BP | 4.30 |
| 3 | MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age)MWI_Chencherere | 4.47 |
| 4 | MWI Fingira (Iron Age)MWI_Fingira | 4.60 |
| 5 | Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP | 4.66 |
| 6 | Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_15500BP | 5.16 |
| 7 | Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_2500BP | 6.63 |
| 8 | South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · South_Africa_1200BPSouth_Africa_1200BP | 9.42 |
| 9 | South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · ZAF_1200BPZAF_1200BP | 9.48 |
| 10 | Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP | 10.21 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HadzaHadza | 18.48 |
| 2 | BakolaBakola | 18.68 |
| 3 | BedzanBedzan | 19.29 |
| 4 | Khomani SanKhomani_San | 19.98 |
| 5 | BakaBaka | 21.57 |
| 6 | Bantu S EBantu_S.E. | 22.39 |
| 7 | SandaweSandawe | 22.44 |
| 8 | BiakaBiaka | 24.15 |
| 9 | Bantu S WBantu_S.W. | 26.54 |
| 10 | Ethiopian Ari blacksmithEthiopian_Ari_blacksmith | 27.14 |
Haplogroups
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.