Ancient population · Bronze Age

San Nicolas E (Bronze Age)

San_Nicolas_E

San Nicolas E (Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (San_Nicolas_E), with 5 samples from California, USA, dated to about 2522 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to CA Early San Nicolas (Bronze Age), Lapa Do Santo (Neolithic, c. 9600 BP, Brazil) and CA LSCI (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Huichol, Mayan and Pima.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include A2cb (2), A2 and A2ca.

Date
about 2522 BCE
Origin
California, USA
Sampled near
San Nicolas Island 33.25, -119.50
Samples
5
Catalogue
San_Nicolas_E

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
#PopulationDistance
1CA Early San Nicolas (Bronze Age)CA_Early_SanNicolas0.66
2Lapa Do Santo (Neolithic, c. 9600 BP, Brazil)Brazil_LapaDoSanto_9600BP1.88
3CA LSCI (Medieval)CA_LSCI1.88
4San Catalina Island (Medieval)San_Catalina_Island1.92
5CA Late San Nicolas (Medieval)CA_Late_SanNicolas1.99
6Island Chumash San Cruz (Medieval)Island_Chumash_SanCruz2.08
7Western Archipelago Ayayema (Bronze Age, c. 5100 BP, Chile)Chile_WesternArchipelago_Ayayema_5100BP2.13
8Yamana (Medieval, c. 1000 BP)Yamana_1000BP2.13
9Nevada Spirit Cave (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 11000 BP)Nevada_SpiritCave_11000BP2.17
10Laguna Chica (Neolithic, c. 6800 BP, Argentina)Argentina_LagunaChica_6800BP2.20
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1HuicholHuichol2.39
2MayanMayan2.55
3PimaPima2.58
4CachiCachi2.59
5MixeMixe2.62
6ZapotecZapotec2.87
7MixtecMixtec2.94
8Bolivian La PazBolivian_LaPaz3.07
9CollaColla3.08
10NahuaNahua3.16

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
SN-17M3369-3029 calBCESan Nicolas IslandQ1b1a1a Q-Y592325A2ca
SN-401200 BCECalifornia, USA
SN-44M3626-3194 calBCESan Nicolas IslandQ1b1a1a Q-Y592325A2cb
SN-48F3650-2200 BCESan Nicolas IslandA2
SN-54M2850-2200 BCESan Nicolas IslandQ1b1 Q-L53A2cb