Ancient population · Neolithic
Pastoral (Neolithic)
Pastoral_N
Pastoral (Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Pastoral_N), with 2 samples from Nyandarua, Kenya, dated to about 390 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya), Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya) and Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya); the nearest living populations are Somali, Somali Kenya and Ethiopian Oromo.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups A1b and E1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include L3x and M1a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- about 390 BCE
- Country
- Kenya
- Origin
- Nyandarua, Kenya
- Sampled near
- Naishi Cave -0.56, 36.25
- Sites
- Naishi Cave
Naivasha Burial Ground - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- PrendergastReichScience2019
- Catalogue
Pastoral_NPastoral_N_ooutliers
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 | Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN | 4.54 |
| 2 | Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN | 4.90 |
| 3 | Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan | 4.96 |
| 4 | Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PNTanzania_PN | 5.26 |
| 5 | Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_LukenyaHill_PastoralN | 5.90 |
| 6 | Molo Cave (Iron Age, c. 1500 BP)MoloCave_1500BP | 6.56 |
| 7 | Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP | 6.61 |
| 8 | Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_EarlyPastoralN | 9.29 |
| 9 | Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya)Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN | 9.76 |
| 10 | Kulubnarti (Medieval)MA_Kulubnarti | 11.04 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SomaliSomali | 4.49 |
| 2 | Somali KenyaSomali_Kenya | 4.93 |
| 3 | Ethiopian OromoEthiopian_Oromo | 6.04 |
| 4 | RendilleRendille | 6.09 |
| 5 | Ethiopian WolaytaEthiopian_Wolayta | 6.29 |
| 6 | Sudan Arab KababishSudan_Arab_Kababish | 8.15 |
| 7 | Ethiopian JewEthiopian_Jew | 8.64 |
| 8 | IraqwIraqw | 8.93 |
| 9 | Ethiopian AgawEthiopian_Agaw | 9.43 |
| 10 | Ethiopian AmharaEthiopian_Amhara | 9.45 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.