Ancient population · Iron Age

Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)

Kenya_Kakapel_LIA

Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kenya_Kakapel_LIA), with 1 sample from Kenya, dated to c. 1740 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP), Munsa (c. 500 BP) and Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP); the nearest living populations are Luhya Kenya, Bantu Kenya and Luo.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is L2a.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 1740 CE
Country
Kenya
Sampled near
Kakapel 0.67, 34.36
Samples
1
Catalogue
Kenya_Kakapel_LIA

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
1Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_600BP6.33
2Munsa (c. 500 BP)Munsa_500BP6.45
3Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Pemba_600BP6.59
4Colonial African (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_African9.27
5Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric9.29
6South Africa (c. 400 BP)South_Africa_400BP9.35
7Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric9.46
8Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Taukome_1100BP13.08
9Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)Botswana_Xaro_EIA13.71
10Kakapel (Medieval, c. 900 BP)Kakapel_900BP17.18
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Luhya KenyaLuhya_Kenya2.65
2Bantu KenyaBantu_Kenya3.05
3LuoLuo3.29
4MwaniMwani7.00
5MadaMada7.58
6YaoYao7.60
7SenaSena7.66
8NdauNdau7.72
9NyanjaNyanja7.74
10MakhuwaMakhuwa7.85

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
KPL002F1640-1950 calCEKakapelL2a1f