Ancient population · Ancient
Munsa (c. 500 BP)
Munsa_500BP
Munsa (c. 500 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Munsa_500BP), with 1 sample from Western Region, Uganda, dated to c. 1500 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP), Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP) and Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo); the nearest living populations are Yao, Manyika and Ndau.
- Period
- Ancient
- Date
- c. 1500 CE
- Country
- Uganda
- Origin
- Western Region, Uganda
- Sampled near
- Munsa 0.82, 31.30
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- WangSchiffelsSciAdv2020
- Catalogue
Munsa_500BP
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 | Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Pemba_600BP | 2.74 |
| 2 | Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_600BP | 2.82 |
| 3 | Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric | 5.60 |
| 4 | Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric | 5.67 |
| 5 | Colonial African (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_African | 6.10 |
| 6 | Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LIA | 6.45 |
| 7 | South Africa (c. 400 BP)South_Africa_400BP | 6.58 |
| 8 | Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Taukome_1100BP | 9.51 |
| 9 | Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)Botswana_Xaro_EIA | 13.50 |
| 10 | SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon)Cameroon_SMA | 20.97 |
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
MUN001 | F | 1400-1600 CE | Munsa |