Ancient population · Hunter-Gatherer
Spirit Cave (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 11000 BP)
Spirit_Cave_11000BP
Spirit Cave (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 11000 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Spirit_Cave_11000BP), with 2 samples from Nevada, USA, dated to about 9020 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Nevada Spirit Cave (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 11000 BP), Yamana (Medieval, c. 1000 BP) and Cueva Calero Archaic (Iron Age, Cuba); the nearest living populations are Huichol, Mixe and Pima.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroup is D1 (2).
- Period
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Date
- about 9020 BCE
- Country
- United States
- Origin
- Nevada, USA
- Sampled near
- Spirit Cave 37.41, -122.08
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- Moreno-MayarWillerslevScience2018
- Catalogue
Spirit_Cave_11000BP
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 | Nevada Spirit Cave (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 11000 BP)Nevada_SpiritCave_11000BP | 2.19 |
| 2 | Yamana (Medieval, c. 1000 BP)Yamana_1000BP | 2.58 |
| 3 | Cueva Calero Archaic (Iron Age, Cuba)Cuba_CuevaCalero_Archaic | 2.65 |
| 4 | Kaweskar (Medieval, c. 1000 BP)Kaweskar_1000BP | 2.66 |
| 5 | Canimar Abajo Archaic (Medieval, Cuba)Cuba_CanimarAbajo_Archaic | 2.73 |
| 6 | CA Chumash (Medieval)CA_Chumash | 2.78 |
| 7 | Mainland Chumash (Antiquity)Mainland_Chumash | 2.80 |
| 8 | Western Archipelago Kaweskar (Medieval, c. 1200 BP, Chile)Chile_WesternArchipelago_Kaweskar_1200BP | 2.81 |
| 9 | Lovelock Cave (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Lovelock_Cave_600BP | 2.83 |
| 10 | Punta Santa Ana (Neolithic, c. 7300 BP, Chile)Chile_PuntaSantaAna_7300BP | 2.83 |
Haplogroups
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.