Ancient population · Medieval

Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal)

Name: Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal) (Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms)
Creator: Genoplot

Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms

Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms), with 6 samples from Nepal, dated to c. 680 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal), Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal) and Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal); the nearest living populations are Sherpa, Tibetan Shannan and Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is F1g.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 680 CE
Country: Nepal
Sampled near: Samdzong Tomb 29.28, 84.03
Samples: 6
Published in: LiuJeongNatComm2022
Catalogue: Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms`	1.13
2	Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA`	1.64
3	Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA`	1.65
4	Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP)`Samdzong_1500BP`	1.73
5	Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal)`Nepal_Samdzong_1500BP`	1.76
6	Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Chokhopani_IA`	2.32
7	Mebrak (Iron Age, c. 2125 BP)`Mebrak_2125BP`	2.50
8	Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)`Chokhopani_2700BP`	2.59
9	Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal)`Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP`	2.60
10	Mustang Lubrak (Early Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Lubrak_EIA`	2.87

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sherpa`Sherpa`	1.44
2	Tibetan Shannan`Tibetan_Shannan`	1.51
3	Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling`Nepali_Sherpa_Rolwaling`	1.58
4	Tibetan Shigatse`Tibetan_Shigatse`	1.60
5	Tibetan`Tibetan`	1.76
6	Tibetan Lhasa`Tibetan_Lhasa`	2.08
7	Rai`Rai`	2.12
8	Nepali Tamang Tashinam`Nepali_Tamang_Tashinam`	2.24
9	Tibetan Nagqu`Tibetan_Nagqu`	2.48
10	Tibetan Xunhua`Tibetan_Xunhua`	2.92

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

O2a2b1a1a1a4a O-CTS1642

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 6

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	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`S10_S13_noUDG`
`S143_S173_noUDG`
`S153_S183_noUDG`
`S163_noUDG`	M	350-1000 CE	Samdzong Tomb	O2a2b1a1a1a4a O-CTS1642
`S18_S20_S21_S22_noUDG`
`S8_noUDG`	F	350-1000 CE	Samdzong Tomb		F1g