Ancient population · Chalcolithic
Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi)
Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP
Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP), with 2 samples from Malawi, dated to c. 4090–4060 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to MWI Fingira (Iron Age), Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi) and Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi); the nearest living populations are Khomani San, Bakola and Bedzan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup B2b (2); its mtDNA haplogroup is L0d (2).
- Period
- Chalcolithic
- Date
- c. 4090–4060 BCE
- Country
- Malawi
- Origin
- Malawi
- Sampled near
- Fingira Rockshelter -10.79, 33.77
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- LipsonPrendergastNature2022
- Catalogue
Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP
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 | MWI Fingira (Iron Age)MWI_Fingira | 2.34 |
| 2 | Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_8500BP | 3.55 |
| 3 | Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Chencherere_LSA_5200BP | 3.99 |
| 4 | Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_15500BP | 4.23 |
| 5 | MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age)MWI_Chencherere | 4.34 |
| 6 | Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)Hora_9000BP | 4.66 |
| 7 | Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_2500BP | 4.84 |
| 8 | South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · South_Africa_1200BPSouth_Africa_1200BP | 10.08 |
| 9 | South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · ZAF_1200BPZAF_1200BP | 10.33 |
| 10 | Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP | 11.67 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khomani SanKhomani_San | 17.92 |
| 2 | BakolaBakola | 18.26 |
| 3 | BedzanBedzan | 19.09 |
| 4 | HadzaHadza | 20.28 |
| 5 | BakaBaka | 21.21 |
| 6 | Bantu S EBantu_S.E. | 23.05 |
| 7 | BiakaBiaka | 23.60 |
| 8 | SandaweSandawe | 24.71 |
| 9 | Bantu S WBantu_S.W. | 27.50 |
| 10 | Ethiopian GumuzEthiopian_Gumuz | 28.49 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.