Ancient population · Ancient
South Africa (c. 400 BP)
South_Africa_400BP
South Africa (c. 400 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (South_Africa_400BP), with 2 samples from Madagascar, dated to c. 1520–1560 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Colonial African (Mexico), Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP) and Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP); the nearest living populations are Bantu S W, Bantu S E and Makhuwa.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is L3e (2).
- Period
- Ancient
- Date
- c. 1520–1560 CE
- Country
- Madagascar
- Origin
- Madagascar
- Sampled near
- Mfongosi -27.55, 31.06
- Sites
- Mfongosi
Newcastle - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- SchlebuschJakobssonScience2017
- Catalogue
South_Africa_400BP.SGvariant
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colonial African (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_African | 5.07 |
| 2 | Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Pemba_600BP | 5.44 |
| 3 | Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Taukome_1100BP | 5.48 |
| 4 | Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_600BP | 5.60 |
| 5 | Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric | 5.83 |
| 6 | Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric | 5.99 |
| 7 | Munsa (c. 500 BP)Munsa_500BP | 6.58 |
| 8 | Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)Botswana_Xaro_EIA | 8.76 |
| 9 | Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LIA | 9.35 |
| 10 | SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon)Cameroon_SMA | 18.16 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.