Ancient population · Medieval

Mapoon (Medieval, c. 112 BP)

Mapoon_112BP

Mapoon (Medieval, c. 112 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mapoon_112BP), with 2 samples from Queensland, Australia, dated to c. 1100 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Cairns (Medieval, c. 420 BP), Barham 1600BP-1400BP (Antiquity) and Willandra Lakes (Medieval, c. 4000 BP); the nearest living populations are Australian, Nasoi and Papuan Highland B.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup S; its mtDNA haplogroup is P5a (2).

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1100 CE
Country
Australia
Origin
Queensland, Australia
Sampled near
Mapoon -12.04, 141.89
Samples
2
Catalogue
Mapoon_112BP

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
1Cairns (Medieval, c. 420 BP)Cairns_420BP2.86
2Barham 1600BP-1400BP (Antiquity)Barham_1600BP-1400BP3.20
3Willandra Lakes (Medieval, c. 4000 BP)Willandra_Lakes_4000BP3.83
4Weipa (Medieval, c. 112 BP)Weipa_112BP4.14
5Vanuatu (c. 150 BP) · Vanuatu_150BPVanuatu_150BP4.40
6Vanuatu (c. 200 BP)Vanuatu_200BP4.85
7VUT (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)VUT_1100BP5.57
8VUT (c. 150 BP)VUT_150BP5.64
9Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 1200 BP)Vanuatu_1200BP5.69
10Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 500 BP) · Vanuatu_500BPVanuatu_500BP5.74
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1AustralianAustralian2.55
2NasoiNasoi8.35
3Papuan Highland BPapuan_Highland_B9.73
4KosipeKosipe19.51
5PapuanPapuan21.71
6KoinanbeKoinanbe21.75
7Papuan Highland APapuan_Highland_A22.31
8JarawaJarawa38.85
9OngeOnge38.98
10AgtaAgta41.34

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

  • S S-B255

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
MH6F400-1800 CEMapoonP5a1a
MH8M400-1800 CEMapoonS S-B255P5a1a