Ancient population · Medieval

Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya)

Name: Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya) (Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN)
Creator: Genoplot

Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN

Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN), with 1 sample from Kenya, dated to c. 590 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP), Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya) and Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya); the nearest living populations are Iraqw, Rendille and Datog.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is L3h.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 590 CE
Country: Kenya
Sampled near: Molo Cave -0.34, 36.07
Samples: 1
Published in: WangSchiffelsSciAdv2020
Catalogue: Kenya_MoloCave_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
#	Population	Distance
1	Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)`Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP`	5.98
2	Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)`Kenya_LukenyaHill_PastoralN`	6.43
3	Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_PastoralN`	6.84
4	Pastoral (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_IA_Pastoral`	6.89
5	Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan`	7.70
6	Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN`	8.21
7	Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN`Tanzania_PN`	8.28
8	Historic 2 (Antiquity, Kenya)`Kenya_Historic_2`	8.38
9	Molo Cave (Iron Age, c. 1500 BP)`MoloCave_1500BP`	8.44
10	Pastoral (Neolithic)`Pastoral_N`	9.76

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Iraqw`Iraqw`	2.82
2	Rendille`Rendille`	5.30
3	Datog`Datog`	5.32
4	Ethiopian Wolayta`Ethiopian_Wolayta`	5.65
5	Somali Kenya`Somali_Kenya`	6.39
6	Ethiopian Ari cultivator`Ethiopian_Ari_cultivator`	6.88
7	Ethiopian Ari`Ethiopian_Ari`	7.70
8	Elmolo`Elmolo`	7.82
9	Somali`Somali`	7.94
10	Ethiopian Ari blacksmith`Ethiopian_Ari_blacksmith`	8.04

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

E1b1b1b2b2a1 E-M293

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

L3h1a2a1

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
`MOL001`	M	541-637 calCE	Molo Cave	E1b1b1b2b2a1 E-M293	L3h1a2a1