Ancient population · Iron Age

Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)

Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN

Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN), with 1 sample from Kenya, dated to c. 320 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya), Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya) and Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN; the nearest living populations are Somali, Somali Kenya and Ethiopian Oromo.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 320 BCE
Country
Kenya
Sampled near
Hyrax Hill -0.28, 36.10
Samples
1
Catalogue
Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN

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
1Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan2.84
2Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN3.15
3Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PNTanzania_PN3.45
4Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_LukenyaHill_PastoralN4.22
5Pastoral (Neolithic)Pastoral_N4.54
6Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP4.92
7Molo Cave (Iron Age, c. 1500 BP)MoloCave_1500BP6.27
8Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_EarlyPastoralN7.63
9Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya)Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN8.21
10Kulubnarti (Medieval)MA_Kulubnarti9.88
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SomaliSomali3.12
2Somali KenyaSomali_Kenya4.16
3Ethiopian OromoEthiopian_Oromo4.50
4Ethiopian WolaytaEthiopian_Wolayta4.71
5RendilleRendille5.69
6Sudan Arab KababishSudan_Arab_Kababish7.31
7Ethiopian JewEthiopian_Jew7.58
8IraqwIraqw7.99
9Ethiopian AgawEthiopian_Agaw8.29
10Ethiopian AmharaEthiopian_Amhara8.30

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man 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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNA
HYR002M415-202 calBCEHyrax HillE1b1b1b2b E-Y17344