Ancient population · Iron Age

South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · South_Africa_2000BP

Name: South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · South_Africa_2000BP (South_Africa_2000BP)
Creator: Genoplot

South_Africa_2000BP

South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · South_Africa_2000BP is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (South_Africa_2000BP), with 1 sample from Madagascar, dated to c. 90 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to South Africa (Antiquity, c. 1900 BP), South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2200 BP) and South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · ZAF_2000BP; the nearest living populations are Khomani San, Ju hoan North and Bakola.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup A1b.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 90 BCE
Country: Madagascar
Origin: Madagascar
Sampled near: Ballito Bay -29.53, 31.22
Samples: 1
Published in: SchlebuschJakobssonScience2017
Catalogue: South_Africa_2000BP.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.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	South Africa (Antiquity, c. 1900 BP)`South_Africa_1900BP`	1.97
2	South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2200 BP)`South_Africa_2200BP`	2.13
3	South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · ZAF_2000BP`ZAF_2000BP`	2.29
4	Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Fingira_LSA_2500BP`	22.59
5	South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · ZAF_1200BP`ZAF_1200BP`	23.54
6	MWI Fingira (Iron Age)`MWI_Fingira`	23.55
7	South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · South_Africa_1200BP`South_Africa_1200BP`	23.57
8	Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP`	23.59
9	Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Hora_LSA_8500BP`	23.73
10	MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age)`MWI_Chencherere`	23.84

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Khomani San`Khomani_San`	6.00
2	Ju hoan North`Ju_hoan_North`	12.71
3	Bakola`Bakola`	34.61
4	Bedzan`Bedzan`	36.32
5	Baka`Baka`	37.48
6	Biaka`Biaka`	38.12
7	Bantu S E`Bantu_S.E.`	40.36
8	Hadza`Hadza`	42.89
9	Bantu S W`Bantu_S.W.`	45.69
10	Sandawe`Sandawe`	46.37

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

A1b1 A1b1

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	Y-DNA
`bab001.SG`	M	163 calBCE - 20 calCE	Ballito Bay	A1b1 A1b1