Ancient population · Iron Age

Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)

Name: Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya) (Kenya_PastoralN)
Creator: Genoplot

Kenya_PastoralN

Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kenya_PastoralN), with 9 samples from Kenya, dated to c. 1290 BCE – 300 CE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b (5) and A1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include L4b (2), L0a, L3d and L3i.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 1290 BCE – 300 CE
Country: Kenya
Sampled near: Naivasha Burial Ground -0.41, 36.31
Sites: Naivasha Burial Ground (4)
Cole's Burial
Keringet Cave
Kisima Farm A5
Naishi Cave
and 1 more
Samples: 9
Published in: PrendergastReichScience2019
Catalogue: Kenya_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	Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan`	1.37
2	Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN`Tanzania_PN`	2.26
3	Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)`Kenya_LukenyaHill_PastoralN`	2.76
4	Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN`	3.15
5	Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)`Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP`	3.50
6	Pastoral (Neolithic)`Pastoral_N`	4.90
7	Molo Cave (Iron Age, c. 1500 BP)`MoloCave_1500BP`	6.03
8	Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya)`Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN`	6.84
9	Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)`Kenya_EarlyPastoralN`	7.64
10	Kulubnarti (Medieval)`MA_Kulubnarti`	10.67

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Somali`Somali`	2.35
2	Somali Kenya`Somali_Kenya`	2.65
3	Ethiopian Wolayta`Ethiopian_Wolayta`	3.42
4	Ethiopian Oromo`Ethiopian_Oromo`	3.99
5	Rendille`Rendille`	4.20
6	Iraqw`Iraqw`	6.39
7	Sudan Arab Kababish`Sudan_Arab_Kababish`	7.63
8	Ethiopian Jew`Ethiopian_Jew`	7.99
9	Ethiopian Amhara`Ethiopian_Amhara`	8.80
10	Ethiopian Agaw`Ethiopian_Agaw`	8.82

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

8 men with a call

E1b1b1b2b E-Y51338 4
A1b1b2b A-Y92096 3
E1b1b1a1a1 E-V12

mtDNA

9 individuals with a call

Individuals 9

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
`I12384`	M	229-358 calCE	Ol Kalou	E1b1b1b2b E-Y51338	L3d
`I8758`	M	750-404 calBCE	Naishi Cave	A1b1b2b A-Y92096	L0a2d
`I8804`	M	750-402 calBCE	Keringet Cave	A1b1b2b A-Y23658	L4b2a1
`I8809`	M	1111-931 calBCE	Kisima Farm A5	E1b1b1b2b E-Z20917	M1a1
`I8814`	F	719-233 calBCE	Naivasha Burial Ground		L4b2a2
`I8874`	M	1401-1134 calBCE	Cole's Burial	E1b1b1a1a1 E-V12	L3i2
`I8918`	M	374-161 calBCE	Naivasha Burial Ground	E1b1b1b2b E-Z20917	L3x1a
`I8919`	M	382-186 calBCE	Naivasha Burial Ground	A1b1b2b A-Y23658	L4a1
`I8920`	M	395-201 calBCE	Naivasha Burial Ground	E1b1b1b2b E-Z20917	R