Ancient population · Bronze Age
Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)
Kenya_EarlyPastoralN
Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kenya_EarlyPastoralN), with 2 samples from Kenya, dated to c. 2000–1960 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan), Kulubnarti (Medieval) and Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN; the nearest living populations are Ethiopian Jew, Ethiopian Agaw and Ethiopian Amhara.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E; its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a and L3f.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 2000–1960 BCE
- Country
- Kenya
- Sampled near
- Prette John's Gully -0.55, 36.11
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- PrendergastReichScience2019
- Catalogue
Kenya_EarlyPastoralN
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 | Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_R | 6.22 |
| 2 | Kulubnarti (Medieval)MA_Kulubnarti | 6.30 |
| 3 | Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PNTanzania_PN | 6.44 |
| 4 | Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan | 6.86 |
| 5 | Early Christian S (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_S | 6.94 |
| 6 | Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN | 7.63 |
| 7 | Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN | 7.64 |
| 8 | Early Christian (Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian | 8.04 |
| 9 | Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP | 8.36 |
| 10 | Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_LukenyaHill_PastoralN | 8.55 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethiopian JewEthiopian_Jew | 3.17 |
| 2 | Ethiopian AgawEthiopian_Agaw | 3.50 |
| 3 | Ethiopian AmharaEthiopian_Amhara | 3.53 |
| 4 | Ethiopian AfarEthiopian_Afar | 3.93 |
| 5 | Ethiopian TigrayEthiopian_Tigray | 4.21 |
| 6 | Saho EritreanSaho_Eritrean | 4.88 |
| 7 | EritreanEritrean | 4.93 |
| 8 | Ethiopian OromoEthiopian_Oromo | 5.42 |
| 9 | SomaliSomali | 7.62 |
| 10 | Sudan Arab KababishSudan_Arab_Kababish | 7.89 |
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.