Ancient population · Iron Age

Mebrak (Iron Age, c. 2125 BP, Nepal)

Nepal_Mebrak_2125BP

Mebrak (Iron Age, c. 2125 BP, Nepal) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Nepal_Mebrak_2125BP), with 1 sample from Nepal, dated to about 175 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mebrak (Iron Age, c. 2125 BP), Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal) and Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal); the nearest living populations are Sherpa, Tibetan Shigatse and Tibetan.

Period
Iron Age
Date
about 175 BCE
Country
Nepal
Samples
1
Catalogue
Nepal_Mebrak_2125BP.SG variant

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
1Mebrak (Iron Age, c. 2125 BP)Mebrak_2125BP1.10
2Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms2.93
3Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms3.02
4Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA3.27
5Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Chokhopani_IA3.42
6Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA3.56
7Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)Chokhopani_2700BP3.66
8Mustang Lubrak (Early Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Lubrak_EIA3.70
9Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal)Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP3.71
10Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal)Nepal_Samdzong_1500BP4.00
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SherpaSherpa3.19
2Tibetan ShigatseTibetan_Shigatse3.37
3TibetanTibetan3.45
4RaiRai3.51
5Nepali Sherpa RolwalingNepali_Sherpa_Rolwaling3.58
6Tibetan NagquTibetan_Nagqu3.70
7Tibetan ShannanTibetan_Shannan3.70
8Tibetan LhasaTibetan_Lhasa3.77
9Nepali Tamang TashinamNepali_Tamang_Tashinam3.97
10Tibetan ChamdoTibetan_Chamdo4.19

Individuals 1

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

Sample
M63_noUDG.SG