Ancient population · Medieval

Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 1400 BP)

Tanzania_Pemba_1400BP

Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 1400 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tanzania_Pemba_1400BP), with 1 sample from Zambia, dated to c. 590 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IA, Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania) and Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic); the nearest living populations are Hadza, Sandawe and Ethiopian Ari blacksmith.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is L0a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 590 CE
Country
Zambia
Origin
Zambia
Sampled near
Makangale Cave -4.90, 39.60
Samples
1
Catalogue
Tanzania_Pemba_1400BP_noUDG 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
1Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IATanzania_PN_IA7.20
2Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania)TZA_Gishimangeda7.40
3Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic)Tanzania_Kisese_LSA7.58
4LSA (Antiquity, Kenya)Kenya_LSA8.00
5Kenya (c. 400 BP) · KEN_400BPKEN_400BP8.09
6Kenya (c. 400 BP) · Kenya_400BPKenya_400BP8.09
7Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP8.25
8Nyarindi LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Nyarindi_LSA_Kansyore8.51
9Ethiopia (Bronze Age, c. 4500 BP)Ethiopia_4500BP9.33
10Mota (Ethiopia)ETH_Mota9.59
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1HadzaHadza7.02
2SandaweSandawe9.77
3Ethiopian Ari blacksmithEthiopian_Ari_blacksmith13.46
4Ethiopian AriEthiopian_Ari13.76
5Ethiopian Ari cultivatorEthiopian_Ari_cultivator14.14
6OgiekOgiek15.76
7KikuyuKikuyu15.91
8SengwerSengwer16.02
9Ethiopian GumuzEthiopian_Gumuz16.15
10ElmoloElmolo16.17

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
I1048_noUDGF539-643 calCEMakangale CaveL0a