Ancient population · Iron Age
Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)
Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan
Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan), with 5 samples from Kenya, dated to c. 640 BCE – 520 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya), Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN and Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya); the nearest living populations are Somali, Somali Kenya and Ethiopian Oromo.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include K1a, L0a, L3f and L3h.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 640 BCE – 520 CE
- Country
- Kenya
- Sampled near
- Rigo Cave -0.41, 35.90
- Sites
- Rigo Cave (2)
Egerton Cave
Keringet Cave
Njoro River Cave II - Samples
- 5
- Published in
- PrendergastReichScience2019
- Catalogue
Kenya_PastoralN_ElmenteitanKenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan_ooutliers
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 | Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN | 1.37 |
| 2 | Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PNTanzania_PN | 2.00 |
| 3 | Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN | 2.84 |
| 4 | Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_LukenyaHill_PastoralN | 3.36 |
| 5 | Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP | 3.62 |
| 6 | Pastoral (Neolithic)Pastoral_N | 4.96 |
| 7 | Molo Cave (Iron Age, c. 1500 BP)MoloCave_1500BP | 6.26 |
| 8 | Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_EarlyPastoralN | 6.86 |
| 9 | Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya)Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN | 7.70 |
| 10 | Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_R | 9.77 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SomaliSomali | 2.27 |
| 2 | Somali KenyaSomali_Kenya | 3.17 |
| 3 | Ethiopian OromoEthiopian_Oromo | 3.34 |
| 4 | Ethiopian WolaytaEthiopian_Wolayta | 3.73 |
| 5 | RendilleRendille | 4.99 |
| 6 | Sudan Arab KababishSudan_Arab_Kababish | 7.03 |
| 7 | Ethiopian JewEthiopian_Jew | 7.09 |
| 8 | IraqwIraqw | 7.19 |
| 9 | Ethiopian AmharaEthiopian_Amhara | 7.89 |
| 10 | Ethiopian AgawEthiopian_Agaw | 7.92 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 6
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.
| Sample | Catalogue entry | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I10719 | Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan | F | 91 calBCE - 24 calCE | Njoro River Cave II | L3h1a2a | |
I12394 | Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan | F | 436-580 calCE | Keringet Cave | K1a | |
I12398 | Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan | M | 778-539 calBCE | Rigo Cave | E1b1b1b2b2a1 E-M293 | L3f |
I8805 | Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan | F | 123-229 calCE | Egerton Cave | L0a1d | |
I8922 | Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan | M | 541-383 calBCE | Rigo Cave | E1b1b1b2b2a1 E-M293 | L4b2a2c |
I8923 outlier | Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan_o | M | 742-396 calBCE | Rigo Cave | E1b1b1b2b2 E-CTS1177 | M32'56 |