Ancient population · Iron Age

Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)

Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP

Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP), with 1 sample from Zambia, dated to c. 1070 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya), Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya) and Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya); the nearest living populations are Ethiopian Wolayta, Somali Kenya and Ethiopian Oromo.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is L2a.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 1070 BCE
Country
Zambia
Origin
Zambia
Sampled near
Luxmanda -4.26, 35.32
Samples
1
Catalogue
Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP

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
1Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN3.50
2Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan3.62
3Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_LukenyaHill_PastoralN3.63
4Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PNTanzania_PN4.35
5Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN4.92
6Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya)Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN5.98
7Pastoral (Neolithic)Pastoral_N6.61
8Molo Cave (Iron Age, c. 1500 BP)MoloCave_1500BP7.00
9Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_EarlyPastoralN8.36
10Pastoral (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_IA_Pastoral11.00
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Ethiopian WolaytaEthiopian_Wolayta2.15
2Somali KenyaSomali_Kenya3.90
3Ethiopian OromoEthiopian_Oromo4.19
4SomaliSomali4.28
5RendilleRendille4.90
6IraqwIraqw5.63
7Sudan Arab KababishSudan_Arab_Kababish7.72
8Ethiopian JewEthiopian_Jew8.64
9Ethiopian AmharaEthiopian_Amhara9.33
10Ethiopian AgawEthiopian_Agaw9.36

Haplogroups

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
I3726F1204-937 calBCELuxmandaL2a1