Ancient population · Neolithic

Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic)

Tanzania_Kisese_LSA

Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tanzania_Kisese_LSA), with 1 sample from Zambia, dated to c. 5120 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP), Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania) and Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IA; the nearest living populations are Hadza, Sandawe and Ethiopian Gumuz.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup B2b; its mtDNA haplogroup is L5b.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 5120 BCE
Country
Zambia
Origin
Zambia
Sampled near
Kisese II Rockshelter -4.49, 35.81
Samples
1
Catalogue
Tanzania_Kisese_LSA

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
1Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP2.51
2Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania)TZA_Gishimangeda2.57
3Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IATanzania_PN_IA2.77
4LSA (Antiquity, Kenya)Kenya_LSA6.26
5Nyarindi LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Nyarindi_LSA_Kansyore6.32
6Kakapel LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LSA_Kansyore6.89
7Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 1400 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_1400BP7.58
8Ethiopia (Bronze Age, c. 4500 BP)Ethiopia_4500BP9.35
9Mota (Ethiopia)ETH_Mota9.71
10Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)Hora_9000BP10.62
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1HadzaHadza8.83
2SandaweSandawe13.91
3Ethiopian GumuzEthiopian_Gumuz17.20
4Ethiopian Ari blacksmithEthiopian_Ari_blacksmith18.32
5Ethiopian MursiEthiopian_Mursi18.48
6KikuyuKikuyu18.65
7Ethiopian AriEthiopian_Ari18.69
8SengwerSengwer18.90
9Bantu S EBantu_S.E.18.91
10Ethiopian Ari cultivatorEthiopian_Ari_cultivator19.23

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I8821M5217-5000 calBCEKisese II RockshelterB2b1 B-M192L5b2