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Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IA

Tanzania_PN_IA

Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IA is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tanzania_PN_IA), with 1 sample from Zambia, dated to c. 200 BCE.

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

Its mtDNA haplogroup is L4b.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 200 BCE
Country
Zambia
Origin
Zambia
Sampled near
Gishimangeda Cave -3.48, 35.35
Samples
1
Catalogue
Tanzania_PN_IA
Tanzania_PN_IA_o outliers

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
1Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania)TZA_Gishimangeda1.01
2Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic)Tanzania_Kisese_LSA2.77
3Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP3.24
4LSA (Antiquity, Kenya)Kenya_LSA5.30
5Nyarindi LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Nyarindi_LSA_Kansyore5.42
6Kakapel LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LSA_Kansyore6.24
7Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 1400 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_1400BP7.20
8Ethiopia (Bronze Age, c. 4500 BP)Ethiopia_4500BP7.97
9Mota (Ethiopia)ETH_Mota8.39
10Kenya (c. 400 BP) · KEN_400BPKEN_400BP11.81
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1HadzaHadza7.40
2SandaweSandawe12.74
3Ethiopian GumuzEthiopian_Gumuz15.83
4Ethiopian MursiEthiopian_Mursi17.08
5Ethiopian Ari blacksmithEthiopian_Ari_blacksmith17.09
6KikuyuKikuyu17.33
7SengwerSengwer17.49
8Ethiopian AriEthiopian_Ari17.60
9Ethiopian Ari cultivatorEthiopian_Ari_cultivator18.04
10Ethiopian AnuakEthiopian_Anuak18.15

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 2

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
I13982Tanzania_PN_IAF800 BCE - 400 CEGishimangeda CaveL4b2a2
I13762 outlierTanzania_PN_IA_oM163-59 calBCEGishimangeda CaveE1b1b1b2b E-Y51338L3i2