Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Taforalt (Hunter-Gatherer, Morocco)

MAR_Taforalt

Taforalt (Hunter-Gatherer, Morocco) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (MAR_Taforalt), with 4 samples from Oriental, Morocco, dated to about 12550 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Iberomaurusian (Hunter-Gatherer, Morocco), Morocco (Early Neolithic) · Morocco_EN and Morocco (Early Neolithic) · MAR_EN; the nearest living populations are Berber MAR TIZ, Saharawi and Moroccan South.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include U6a (3) and M1b.

Date
about 12550 BCE
Country
Morocco
Origin
Oriental, Morocco
Sampled near
Taforalt Cave 34.81, -2.40
Samples
4
Catalogue
MAR_Taforalt

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
1Iberomaurusian (Hunter-Gatherer, Morocco)Morocco_Iberomaurusian0.64
2Morocco (Early Neolithic) · Morocco_ENMorocco_EN3.26
3Morocco (Early Neolithic) · MAR_ENMAR_EN3.30
4Guanche (Medieval, Canary Islands)CanaryIslands_Guanche25.95
5Canary Islands Guanche (Medieval)Canary_Islands_Guanche26.37
6Early Christian (Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian26.55
7Early Christian S (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_S27.02
8Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_R27.08
9Kulubnarti (Medieval)MA_Kulubnarti27.46
10Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_EarlyPastoralN27.58
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Berber MAR TIZBerber_MAR_TIZ21.09
2SaharawiSaharawi21.90
3Moroccan SouthMoroccan_South22.00
4Berber MAR ERRBerber_MAR_ERR23.12
5MoroccanMoroccan24.87
6MozabiteMozabite25.13
7AlgerianAlgerian26.63
8Berber Tunisia ChenBerber_Tunisia_Chen26.66
9Tunisian Berber MatmataTunisian_Berber_Matmata26.80
10Tunisian Berber TamezretTunisian_Berber_Tamezret27.10

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. 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
TAF010M13137-12252 calBCETaforalt CaveE1b1b E-M35U6a7b
TAF011M12900-12100 BCETaforalt CaveE1b1b E-M215U6a7
TAF013M13200-11900 BCETaforalt CaveE1b1b1a E-L539U6a7b
TAF014M13200-11900 BCETaforalt CaveE1b1b E-M215M1b
TAF009 outlierM12849-12097 calBCETaforalt CaveE1b1b1a1 E-M78U6a6b