Ancient population · Bronze Age
MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age)
MWI_Chencherere
MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (MWI_Chencherere), with 1 sample from Central Region, Malawi, dated to c. 3200 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi), MWI Fingira (Iron Age) and Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi); the nearest living populations are Khomani San, Bakola and Bedzan.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is L0k.
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Date
- c. 3200 BCE
- Country
- Malawi
- Origin
- Central Region, Malawi
- Sampled near
- Chencherere -14.38, 33.82
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LipsonPrendergastNature2022
- Catalogue
MWI_Chencherere
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 | Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Chencherere_LSA_5200BP | 1.77 |
| 2 | MWI Fingira (Iron Age)MWI_Fingira | 4.14 |
| 3 | Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP | 4.34 |
| 4 | Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)Hora_9000BP | 4.47 |
| 5 | Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_8500BP | 4.87 |
| 6 | Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_15500BP | 5.87 |
| 7 | Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_2500BP | 6.20 |
| 8 | South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · South_Africa_1200BPSouth_Africa_1200BP | 9.43 |
| 9 | South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · ZAF_1200BPZAF_1200BP | 9.54 |
| 10 | Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP | 11.61 |
Haplogroups
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 | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I4421_new_all | F | 3400-3000 BCE | Chencherere | L0k2 |