Ancient population · Antiquity

South Africa (Antiquity, c. 1900 BP)

South_Africa_1900BP

South Africa (Antiquity, c. 1900 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (South_Africa_1900BP), with 2 samples from Madagascar, dated to c. 60 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · ZAF_2000BP, South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2200 BP) and South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · South_Africa_2000BP; the nearest living populations are Khomani San, Ju hoan North and Bakola.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup A1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is L0d.

Period
Antiquity
Date
c. 60 CE
Country
Madagascar
Origin
Madagascar
Sampled near
Ballito Bay -29.53, 31.22
Samples
2
Catalogue
South_Africa_1900BP.SG variant

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.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Khomani SanKhomani_San6.20
2Ju hoan NorthJu_hoan_North13.33
3BakolaBakola34.40
4BedzanBedzan36.18
5BakaBaka37.25
6BiakaBiaka37.83
7Bantu S EBantu_S.E.40.66
8HadzaHadza43.09
9Bantu S WBantu_S.W.45.96
10SandaweSandawe46.65

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 2

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
baa001.SGM38 calBCE - 120 calCEBallito BayA1b1b2a A-Y65344L0d2c1
I9133_noUDG.SGMadagascar