Ancient population · Antiquity

LSA (Antiquity, Kenya)

Name: LSA (Antiquity, Kenya) (Kenya_LSA)
Creator: Genoplot

Kenya_LSA

LSA (Antiquity, Kenya) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kenya_LSA), with 1 sample from Kenya, dated to c. 160 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IA, Kakapel LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya) and Nyarindi LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya); the nearest living populations are Hadza, Sandawe and Ethiopian Gumuz.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is L4b.

Period: Antiquity
Date: c. 160 CE
Country: Kenya
Sampled near: Jawuoyo Rockshelter -0.07, 34.67
Samples: 1
Published in: PrendergastReichScience2019
Catalogue: Kenya_LSA

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IA`Tanzania_PN_IA`	5.30
2	Kakapel LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)`Kenya_Kakapel_LSA_Kansyore`	5.32
3	Nyarindi LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)`Kenya_Nyarindi_LSA_Kansyore`	5.39
4	Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania)`TZA_Gishimangeda`	5.53
5	Ethiopia (Bronze Age, c. 4500 BP)`Ethiopia_4500BP`	5.60
6	Mota (Ethiopia)`ETH_Mota`	5.78
7	Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic)`Tanzania_Kisese_LSA`	6.26
8	Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)`Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP`	6.74
9	Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 1400 BP)`Tanzania_Pemba_1400BP`	8.00
10	Kenya (c. 400 BP) · KEN_400BP`KEN_400BP`	9.92

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Hadza`Hadza`	4.81
2	Sandawe`Sandawe`	10.80
3	Ethiopian Gumuz`Ethiopian_Gumuz`	12.42
4	Ethiopian Mursi`Ethiopian_Mursi`	13.72
5	Sengwer`Sengwer`	14.09
6	Ethiopian Ari blacksmith`Ethiopian_Ari_blacksmith`	14.50
7	Ethiopian Ari`Ethiopian_Ari`	14.98
8	Kikuyu`Kikuyu`	14.98
9	Ethiopian Anuak`Ethiopian_Anuak`	15.24
10	Ethiopian Ari cultivator`Ethiopian_Ari_cultivator`	15.49

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

E1b1b1a1b2 E-V3262

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

L4b2a2c

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I8808`	M	119-216 calCE	Jawuoyo Rockshelter	E1b1b1a1b2 E-V3262	L4b2a2c