Ancient population · Medieval

Kakapel (Medieval, c. 900 BP)

Kakapel_900BP

Kakapel (Medieval, c. 900 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kakapel_900BP), with 1 sample from Bungoma, Kenya, dated to c. 1140 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mota (Ethiopia), Ethiopia (Bronze Age, c. 4500 BP) and Historic 2 (Antiquity, Kenya); the nearest living populations are Ethiopian Mursi, Ethiopian Gumuz and Sudan Nuba Koalib.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is L2a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1140 CE
Country
Kenya
Origin
Bungoma, Kenya
Sampled near
Kakapel 0.67, 34.36
Samples
1
Catalogue
Kakapel_900BP

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
#PopulationDistance
1Mota (Ethiopia)ETH_Mota12.00
2Ethiopia (Bronze Age, c. 4500 BP)Ethiopia_4500BP12.40
3Historic 2 (Antiquity, Kenya)Kenya_Historic_212.46
4Pastoral (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_IA_Pastoral14.14
5LSA (Antiquity, Kenya)Kenya_LSA15.48
6Kenya (c. 400 BP) · KEN_400BPKEN_400BP15.63
7Kenya (c. 400 BP) · Kenya_400BPKenya_400BP15.63
8Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LIA17.18
9Nyarindi LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Nyarindi_LSA_Kansyore17.40
10Kakapel LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LSA_Kansyore18.14
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Ethiopian MursiEthiopian_Mursi4.48
2Ethiopian GumuzEthiopian_Gumuz4.96
3Sudan Nuba KoalibSudan_Nuba_Koalib5.94
4Sudan DajuSudan_Daju6.36
5SengwerSengwer6.73
6Ethiopian AnuakEthiopian_Anuak7.26
7Zaghawa SudanZaghawa_Sudan7.58
8DinkaDinka7.83
9Chad MabaChad_Maba7.99
10SudaneseSudanese8.06

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
KPL003F1044-1220 calCEKakapelL2a5