Ancient population · Iron Age
Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal)
Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA
Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA), with 4 samples from Nepal, dated to c. 6030–700 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal), Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal) and Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal); the nearest living populations are Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling, Tibetan Shannan and Nepali Tamang Tashinam.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include F1c, F1g, K1a and M13a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 6030–700 BCE
- Country
- Nepal
- Sampled near
- Rhirhi 32.22, 66.26
- Sites
- Rhirhi (3)
Grotta Continenza - Samples
- 4
- Published in
- LiuJeongNatComm2022
AntonioPritchardScience2019 - Catalogue
Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA
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 | Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA | 1.44 |
| 2 | Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms | 1.45 |
| 3 | Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms | 1.64 |
| 4 | Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP)Samdzong_1500BP | 1.92 |
| 5 | Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal)Nepal_Samdzong_1500BP | 2.12 |
| 6 | Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Chokhopani_IA | 2.19 |
| 7 | Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)Chokhopani_2700BP | 2.42 |
| 8 | Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal)Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP | 2.66 |
| 9 | Mustang Suila (Late Chalcolithic, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Suila_LateC | 3.01 |
| 10 | Mustang Lubrak (Early Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Lubrak_EIA | 3.10 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nepali Sherpa RolwalingNepali_Sherpa_Rolwaling | 1.88 |
| 2 | Tibetan ShannanTibetan_Shannan | 2.15 |
| 3 | Nepali Tamang TashinamNepali_Tamang_Tashinam | 2.33 |
| 4 | SherpaSherpa | 2.39 |
| 5 | Tibetan ShigatseTibetan_Shigatse | 2.47 |
| 6 | TibetanTibetan | 2.50 |
| 7 | Tibetan LhasaTibetan_Lhasa | 2.69 |
| 8 | RaiRai | 2.70 |
| 9 | GurungGurung | 2.88 |
| 10 | Tibetan XunhuaTibetan_Xunhua | 3.08 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
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.