Ancient population · Antiquity

Lovelock Cave (Antiquity, c. 1850 BP)

Lovelock_Cave_1850BP

Lovelock Cave (Antiquity, c. 1850 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Lovelock_Cave_1850BP), with 3 samples from Nevada, USA, dated to about 70 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Nevada Lovelock Cave (Antiquity, c. 1850 BP), CA LSCI (Medieval) and San Catalina Island (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Huichol, Pima and Mixe.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is D1 (3).

Period
Antiquity
Date
about 70 CE
Origin
Nevada, USA
Sampled near
Lovelock Cave 39.96, -118.56
Samples
3
Catalogue
Lovelock_Cave_1850BP

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
#PopulationDistance
1Nevada Lovelock Cave (Antiquity, c. 1850 BP)Nevada_LovelockCave_1850BP0.66
2CA LSCI (Medieval)CA_LSCI2.20
3San Catalina Island (Medieval)San_Catalina_Island2.20
4Nevada Lovelock Cave (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Nevada_LovelockCave_600BP2.26
5Lovelock Cave (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Lovelock_Cave_600BP2.36
6CA Late San Nicolas (Medieval)CA_Late_SanNicolas2.58
7CA San Cruz Island Chumash (Medieval)CA_SanCruz_IslandChumash2.63
8San Nicolas L (Medieval)San_Nicolas_L2.66
9Nevada Spirit Cave (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 11000 BP)Nevada_SpiritCave_11000BP2.78
10Island Chumash San Miguel (Medieval)Island_Chumash_SanMiguel2.83
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1HuicholHuichol2.45
2PimaPima2.65
3MixeMixe2.70
4NahuaNahua3.08
5ZapotecZapotec3.19
6MixtecMixtec3.28
7MayanMayan3.45
8CachiCachi4.57
9Bolivian La PazBolivian_LaPaz4.90
10CollaColla5.13

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
Lovelock1F49 calBCE - 110 calCELovelock CaveD1
Lovelock2F26-207 calCELovelock CaveD1
Lovelock4M126-313 calCELovelock CaveQ1b1b Q-FTC41264D1