Ancient population · Bronze Age

LAO (Bronze Age)

Name: LAO (Bronze Age) (LAO_BA)
Creator: Genoplot

LAO_BA

LAO (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (LAO_BA), with 1 sample from Houaphanh, Laos, dated to about 331 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Laos (Bronze Age), MYS (Late Neolithic) and Malaysia (Late Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Kuy Suay, Khmer and Indonesian Java.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is N9a.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: about 331 BCE
Country: Laos
Origin: Houaphanh, Laos
Sampled near: Tam Hang 20.24, 103.43
Samples: 1
Published in: McCollWillerslevScience2018
Catalogue: LAO_BA

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	Laos (Bronze Age)`Laos_BA`	1.49
2	MYS (Late Neolithic)`MYS_LN`	3.22
3	Malaysia (Late Neolithic)`Malaysia_LN`	3.36
4	Laos (Late Neolithic–Bronze Age)`Laos_LN_BA`	3.47
5	Vietnam (Late Neolithic) · Vietnam_LN`Vietnam_LN`	3.67
6	Roopkund C (India)`India_RoopkundC`	4.14
7	Vietnam (Neolithic) · VNM_N`VNM_N`	4.48
8	Ha Long Culture (Late Neolithic, Vietnam)`Vietnam_LN_HaLongCulture`	4.76
9	Vietnam (Neolithic) · Vietnam_N`Vietnam_N`	5.47
10	Vietnam (Late Neolithic) · VNM_LN`VNM_LN`	7.89

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Kuy Suay`Kuy_Suay`	3.86
2	Khmer`Khmer`	3.89
3	Indonesian Java`Indonesian_Java`	4.11
4	Mlabri`Mlabri`	4.45
5	Indonesian Bali`Indonesian_Bali`	4.46
6	Nyah Kur`Nyah_Kur`	4.74
7	Htin Mal`Htin_Mal`	5.35
8	Malay`Malay`	6.59
9	Cambodian`Cambodian`	7.19
10	Lao`Lao`	8.56

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

N9a6

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	mtDNA
`La727`	F	459-231 calBCE	Tam Hang	N9a6