Ancient population · Iron Age

South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2200 BP)

South_Africa_2200BP

South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2200 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (South_Africa_2200BP), with 1 sample from Madagascar, dated to about 250 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to South Africa (Antiquity, c. 1900 BP), South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · South_Africa_2000BP and South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · ZAF_2000BP; the nearest living populations are Khomani San, Ju hoan North and Bakola.

Period
Iron Age
Date
about 250 BCE
Country
Madagascar
Origin
Madagascar
Samples
1
Catalogue
South_Africa_2200BP.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
#PopulationDistance
1South Africa (Antiquity, c. 1900 BP)South_Africa_1900BP1.96
2South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · South_Africa_2000BPSouth_Africa_2000BP2.13
3South Africa (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) · ZAF_2000BPZAF_2000BP2.23
4Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_2500BP21.90
5MWI Fingira (Iron Age)MWI_Fingira22.98
6Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP23.08
7Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_8500BP23.19
8MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age)MWI_Chencherere23.47
9South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · ZAF_1200BPZAF_1200BP23.51
10South Africa (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) · South_Africa_1200BPSouth_Africa_1200BP23.54
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Khomani SanKhomani_San5.94
2Ju hoan NorthJu_hoan_North13.98
3BakolaBakola33.81
4BedzanBedzan35.60
5BakaBaka36.68
6BiakaBiaka37.26
7Bantu S EBantu_S.E.40.15
8HadzaHadza42.60
9Bantu S WBantu_S.W.45.46
10SandaweSandawe46.21

Individuals 1

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

SampleOrigin
I9028.SGMadagascar