Ancient population · Iron Age
MWI Fingira (Iron Age)
MWI_Fingira
MWI Fingira (Iron Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (MWI_Fingira), with 2 samples from Northen Region, Malawi, dated to c. 4060–460 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi), Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi) and Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi); the nearest living populations are Bakola, Khomani San and Bedzan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup B2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include L0d and L0f.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 4060–460 BCE
- Country
- Malawi
- Origin
- Northen Region, Malawi
- Sampled near
- Fingira Rockshelter -10.79, 33.77
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- LipsonPrendergastNature2022
- Catalogue
MWI_Fingira
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 | Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP | 2.34 |
| 2 | Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_15500BP | 3.36 |
| 3 | Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_8500BP | 3.48 |
| 4 | Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_2500BP | 3.71 |
| 5 | Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Chencherere_LSA_5200BP | 4.00 |
| 6 | MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age)MWI_Chencherere | 4.14 |
| 7 | Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)Hora_9000BP | 4.60 |
| 8 | South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · South_Africa_1200BPSouth_Africa_1200BP | 11.11 |
| 9 | South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · ZAF_1200BPZAF_1200BP | 11.33 |
| 10 | Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP | 11.94 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.