Ancient population · Medieval

Solomon Islands (Medieval, c. 500 BP)

SolomonIslands_500BP

Solomon Islands (Medieval, c. 500 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (SolomonIslands_500BP), with 1 sample from Solomon Islands, dated to c. 1480 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Pantar Jareng Bori Majapahit Pre-Colonial (Medieval, Indonesia), Vanuatu (c. 400 BP) and Flores Liang Toge (Late Iron Age, Indonesia); the nearest living populations are Nasoi, Bajo and Agta.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is B4a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1480 CE
Sampled near
Malaita -9.25, 161.22
Samples
1
Catalogue
SolomonIslands_500BP

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
1Pantar Jareng Bori Majapahit Pre-Colonial (Medieval, Indonesia)Indonesia_Pantar_JarengBori_Majapahit_PreColonial3.60
2Vanuatu (c. 400 BP)Vanuatu_400BP4.99
3Flores Liang Toge (Late Iron Age, Indonesia)Indonesia_Flores_LiangToge_LIA5.49
4Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP)Vanuatu_2000BP8.06
5Morotai Tanjung Pinang (Neolithic–Early Bronze Age, Indonesia)Indonesia_Morotai_TanjungPinang_N_EBA12.04
6Morotai Aru Manara (Early Bronze Age, Indonesia)Indonesia_Morotai_AruManara_EBA13.00
7Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2600 BP)Vanuatu_2600BP13.15
8VUT EretokVUT_Eretok14.08
9Sulawesi (Hunter-Gatherer, Indonesia)Indonesia_Sulawesi_HG14.71
10Kayoa Gua Uattamdi (Neolithic, Indonesia)Indonesia_Kayoa_GuaUattamdi_N15.73
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NasoiNasoi13.78
2BajoBajo21.06
3AgtaAgta21.36
4AetaAeta21.90
5AustralianAustralian22.52
6BatakBatak23.14
7ManiqManiq24.84
8JarawaJarawa25.19
9OngeOnge25.27
10JehaiJehai26.05

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
MAI002_noUDGF1431-1617 calCEMalaitaB4a1a1a