Ancient population · Iron Age

Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN

Tanzania_PN

Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tanzania_PN), with 5 samples from Zambia, dated to c. 640 BCE – 30 CE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include HV1b, L0a, L0f and L3x.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 640 BCE – 30 CE
Country
Zambia
Origin
Zambia
Sampled near
Gishimangeda Cave -3.48, 35.35
Samples
5
Catalogue
Tanzania_PN

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 Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan2.00
2Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN2.26
3Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN3.45
4Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_LukenyaHill_PastoralN4.10
5Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP4.35
6Pastoral (Neolithic)Pastoral_N5.26
7Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_EarlyPastoralN6.44
8Molo Cave (Iron Age, c. 1500 BP)MoloCave_1500BP6.46
9Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya)Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN8.28
10Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_R9.52
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SomaliSomali2.82
2Ethiopian OromoEthiopian_Oromo3.54
3Somali KenyaSomali_Kenya3.85
4Ethiopian WolaytaEthiopian_Wolayta4.43
5RendilleRendille5.61
6Ethiopian JewEthiopian_Jew6.75
7Sudan Arab KababishSudan_Arab_Kababish7.16
8Ethiopian AgawEthiopian_Agaw7.57
9Ethiopian AmharaEthiopian_Amhara7.59
10IraqwIraqw7.87

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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
I13977M47 calBCE - 113 calCEGishimangeda CaveE1b1b1b2b2 E-CTS1177L0f2a1
I13978F414-203 calBCEGishimangeda CaveL4b2a1
I13979F721-386 calBCEGishimangeda CaveL3x1
I13980M776-487 calBCEGishimangeda CaveE1b1b1a1b2 E-V3262HV1b1
I13981F768-421 calBCEGishimangeda CaveL0a