Ancient population · Iron Age

Molo Cave (Iron Age, c. 1500 BP)

MoloCave_1500BP

Molo Cave (Iron Age, c. 1500 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (MoloCave_1500BP), with 1 sample from Nakuru, Kenya, dated to c. 70 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya), Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya) and Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya); the nearest living populations are Somali Kenya, Somali and Ethiopian Wolayta.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 70 BCE
Country
Kenya
Origin
Nakuru, Kenya
Sampled near
Molo Cave -0.34, 36.07
Samples
1
Catalogue
MoloCave_1500BP

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
1Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN6.03
2Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_LukenyaHill_PastoralN6.08
3Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan6.26
4Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN6.27
5Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PNTanzania_PN6.46
6Pastoral (Neolithic)Pastoral_N6.56
7Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP7.00
8Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya)Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN8.44
9Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_EarlyPastoralN10.26
10Pastoral (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_IA_Pastoral12.49
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Somali KenyaSomali_Kenya6.70
2SomaliSomali6.75
3Ethiopian WolaytaEthiopian_Wolayta7.05
4RendilleRendille7.21
5Ethiopian OromoEthiopian_Oromo7.61
6IraqwIraqw8.37
7Sudan Arab KababishSudan_Arab_Kababish9.95
8Ethiopian JewEthiopian_Jew10.52
9DatogDatog10.89
10Ethiopian AgawEthiopian_Agaw10.97

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.

SampleSexDateSite
MOL003F143 calBCE - 18 calCEMolo Cave