Ancient population · Antiquity

Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP)

Name: Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP) (Samdzong_1500BP)
Creator: Genoplot

Samdzong_1500BP

Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Samdzong_1500BP), with 2 samples from Gandaki, Nepal, dated to about 450 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal), Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal) and Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal); the nearest living populations are Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling, Tibetan Shannan and Tibetan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is M9a.

Period: Antiquity
Date: about 450 CE
Country: Nepal
Origin: Gandaki, Nepal
Sampled near: Samdzong Tomb 29.28, 84.03
Samples: 2
Published in: JeongWarinnerPNAS2016
Catalogue: Samdzong_1500BP

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	Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal)`Nepal_Samdzong_1500BP`	0.71
2	Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms`	1.73
3	Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms`	1.88
4	Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA`	1.92
5	Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA`	2.18
6	Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Chokhopani_IA`	2.98
7	Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)`Chokhopani_2700BP`	2.99
8	Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal)`Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP`	3.11
9	Mustang Suila (Late Chalcolithic, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Suila_LateC`	3.31
10	Mustang Lubrak (Early Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Lubrak_EIA`	3.55

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling`Nepali_Sherpa_Rolwaling`	1.69
2	Tibetan Shannan`Tibetan_Shannan`	1.89
3	Tibetan`Tibetan`	2.16
4	Sherpa`Sherpa`	2.19
5	Tibetan Shigatse`Tibetan_Shigatse`	2.24
6	Tibetan Lhasa`Tibetan_Lhasa`	2.45
7	Rai`Rai`	2.48
8	Tibetan Xunhua`Tibetan_Xunhua`	2.57
9	Nepali Tamang Tashinam`Nepali_Tamang_Tashinam`	2.58
10	Tibetan Gangcha`Tibetan_Gangcha`	2.69

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

O2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-F20067

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

M9a1a

Individuals 3

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`S10`		450 CE	Gandaki, Nepal
`S35`	M	200-700 CE	Samdzong Tomb	O2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-F20067	M9a1a
`S41` outlier	M	200-700 CE	Samdzong Tomb	D1a1a1	F1d