Ancient population · Neolithic
Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi)
Malawi_Hora_LSA_8500BP
Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Malawi_Hora_LSA_8500BP), with 1 sample from Malawi, dated to c. 6940 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to MWI Fingira (Iron Age), Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi) and Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP); the nearest living populations are Khomani San, Bakola and Hadza.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup B2b; its mtDNA haplogroup is H2a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- c. 6940 BCE
- Country
- Malawi
- Origin
- Malawi
- Sampled near
- Hora -11.66, 33.64
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- SkoglundReichCell2017
- Catalogue
Malawi_Hora_LSA_8500BP.SGvariant
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 | 3.48 |
| 2 | Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP | 3.55 |
| 3 | Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)Hora_9000BP | 4.30 |
| 4 | Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_15500BP | 4.45 |
| 5 | Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Chencherere_LSA_5200BP | 4.66 |
| 6 | MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age)MWI_Chencherere | 4.87 |
| 7 | Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_2500BP | 5.69 |
| 8 | South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · South_Africa_1200BPSouth_Africa_1200BP | 9.28 |
| 9 | South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · ZAF_1200BPZAF_1200BP | 9.47 |
| 10 | Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP | 11.70 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khomani SanKhomani_San | 18.12 |
| 2 | BakolaBakola | 19.41 |
| 3 | HadzaHadza | 20.07 |
| 4 | BedzanBedzan | 20.18 |
| 5 | BakaBaka | 22.32 |
| 6 | Bantu S EBantu_S.E. | 23.57 |
| 7 | SandaweSandawe | 24.31 |
| 8 | BiakaBiaka | 24.68 |
| 9 | Bantu S WBantu_S.W. | 27.96 |
| 10 | Ethiopian GumuzEthiopian_Gumuz | 28.50 |
Haplogroups
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.