Ancient population · Medieval

Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)

Tanzania_Pemba_600BP

Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tanzania_Pemba_600BP), with 1 sample from Zambia, dated to c. 1360 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP), Munsa (c. 500 BP) and Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo); the nearest living populations are Mwani, Sena and Nyanja.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is L2a.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1360 CE
Country
Zambia
Origin
Zambia
Sampled near
Makangale Cave -4.90, 39.60
Samples
1
Catalogue
Tanzania_Pemba_600BP

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
1Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Pemba_600BP1.71
2Munsa (c. 500 BP)Munsa_500BP2.82
3Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric4.45
4Colonial African (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_African4.81
5Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric5.08
6South Africa (c. 400 BP)South_Africa_400BP5.60
7Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LIA6.33
8Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Taukome_1100BP8.69
9Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)Botswana_Xaro_EIA12.76
10SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon)Cameroon_SMA20.83
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1MwaniMwani2.42
2SenaSena2.54
3NyanjaNyanja2.63
4NdauNdau2.66
5YaoYao2.68
6MakhuwaMakhuwa2.89
7ChanganaChangana2.90
8ManyikaManyika2.91
9TswaTswa2.93
10BitongaBitonga3.05

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
I2298_noUDGF1319-1411 calCEMakangale CaveL2a1a2