Ancient population · Medieval
Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)
Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP
Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP), with 2 samples from Zambia, dated to c. 620 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic), Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IA and Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania); the nearest living populations are Hadza, Sandawe and Ethiopian Gumuz.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is L4b.
- Period
- Medieval
- Date
- c. 620 CE
- Country
- Zambia
- Origin
- Zambia
- Sampled near
- Kuumbi Cave -6.40, 39.50
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- SkoglundReichCell2017
- Catalogue
Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BPTanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP_noUDGvariant
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic)Tanzania_Kisese_LSA | 2.51 |
| 2 | Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IATanzania_PN_IA | 3.24 |
| 3 | Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania)TZA_Gishimangeda | 3.35 |
| 4 | Nyarindi LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Nyarindi_LSA_Kansyore | 6.50 |
| 5 | LSA (Antiquity, Kenya)Kenya_LSA | 6.74 |
| 6 | Kakapel LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LSA_Kansyore | 6.98 |
| 7 | Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 1400 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_1400BP | 8.25 |
| 8 | Ethiopia (Bronze Age, c. 4500 BP)Ethiopia_4500BP | 9.95 |
| 9 | Mota (Ethiopia)ETH_Mota | 10.21 |
| 10 | Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)Hora_9000BP | 10.21 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HadzaHadza | 9.28 |
| 2 | SandaweSandawe | 14.22 |
| 3 | Ethiopian GumuzEthiopian_Gumuz | 17.79 |
| 4 | Ethiopian Ari blacksmithEthiopian_Ari_blacksmith | 18.55 |
| 5 | Ethiopian AriEthiopian_Ari | 18.94 |
| 6 | KikuyuKikuyu | 19.07 |
| 7 | Ethiopian MursiEthiopian_Mursi | 19.14 |
| 8 | Bantu S EBantu_S.E. | 19.20 |
| 9 | SengwerSengwer | 19.45 |
| 10 | Ethiopian Ari cultivatorEthiopian_Ari_cultivator | 19.45 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.