Ancient population · Medieval
Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)
Pemba_600BP
Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Pemba_600BP), with 1 sample from Zanzibar, Tanzania, dated to about 1344 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP), Munsa (c. 500 BP) and Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo); the nearest living populations are Mwani, Sena and Yao.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is L2a.
- Period
- Medieval
- Date
- about 1344 CE
- Country
- Tanzania
- Origin
- Zanzibar, Tanzania
- Sampled near
- Makangale Cave -4.90, 39.60
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- SkoglundReichCell2017
- Catalogue
Pemba_600BP
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 | Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_600BP | 1.71 |
| 2 | Munsa (c. 500 BP)Munsa_500BP | 2.74 |
| 3 | Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric | 3.93 |
| 4 | Colonial African (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_African | 4.24 |
| 5 | Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric | 4.30 |
| 6 | South Africa (c. 400 BP)South_Africa_400BP | 5.44 |
| 7 | Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LIA | 6.59 |
| 8 | Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Taukome_1100BP | 8.30 |
| 9 | Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)Botswana_Xaro_EIA | 12.33 |
| 10 | SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon)Cameroon_SMA | 20.23 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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 | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
I2298 | F | 1319-1411 calCE | Makangale Cave | L2a1a2 |