Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer

Iberomaurusian (Hunter-Gatherer, Morocco)

Morocco_Iberomaurusian

Iberomaurusian (Hunter-Gatherer, Morocco) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Morocco_Iberomaurusian), with 4 samples from Morocco, dated to c. 12700–12500 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Taforalt (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
c. 12700–12500 BCE
Country
Morocco
Sampled near
Taforalt Cave 34.81, -2.40
Samples
4
Catalogue
Morocco_Iberomaurusian

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
1Taforalt (Hunter-Gatherer, Morocco)MAR_Taforalt0.64
2Morocco (Early Neolithic) · Morocco_ENMorocco_EN3.30
3Morocco (Early Neolithic) · MAR_ENMAR_EN3.30
4Guanche (Medieval, Canary Islands)CanaryIslands_Guanche25.88
5Canary Islands Guanche (Medieval)Canary_Islands_Guanche26.29
6Early Christian (Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian26.42
7Early Christian S (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_S26.87
8Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_R26.92
9Kulubnarti (Medieval)MA_Kulubnarti27.30
10Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_EarlyPastoralN27.39
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Berber MAR TIZBerber_MAR_TIZ21.00
2SaharawiSaharawi21.81
3Moroccan SouthMoroccan_South21.90
4Berber MAR ERRBerber_MAR_ERR23.04
5MoroccanMoroccan24.78
6MozabiteMozabite25.05
7AlgerianAlgerian26.54
8Berber Tunisia ChenBerber_Tunisia_Chen26.59
9Tunisian Berber MatmataTunisian_Berber_Matmata26.71
10Tunisian Berber TamezretTunisian_Berber_Tamezret27.01

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
TAF010_noUDGM13137-12252 calBCETaforalt CaveE1b1b E-M35U6a7b
TAF011_noUDGM12900-12100 BCETaforalt CaveE1b1b E-M215U6a7
TAF013_noUDGM13200-11900 BCETaforalt CaveE1b1b1a E-L539U6a7b
TAF014_noUDGM13200-11900 BCETaforalt CaveE1b1b E-M215M1b
TAF009_noUDG outlierM12849-12097 calBCETaforalt CaveE1b1b1a1 E-M78U6a6b