Ancient population · Iron Age
TON (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)
TON_2500BP
TON (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (TON_2500BP), with 2 samples from Tongatapu, Tonga, dated to about 525 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP), Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP) and Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · 2900BP_all; the nearest living populations are Luzon, Dusun and Igorot.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is B4a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- about 525 BCE
- Country
- Tonga
- Origin
- Tongatapu, Tonga
- Sampled near
- Talasiu site -21.18, -175.12
- Samples
- 2
- Catalogue
TON_2500BP
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 | Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)Tonga_2500BP | 2.64 |
| 2 | Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)Tonga_2700BP | 2.66 |
| 3 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · 2900BP_all2900BP_all | 3.13 |
| 4 | TWN Hanben (Antiquity)TWN_Hanben | 3.74 |
| 5 | Latte (Medieval, Guam)Guam_Latte | 3.92 |
| 6 | Mariana Islands LatteMarianaIslands_Latte | 3.99 |
| 7 | Late Latte (Medieval, Guam)Guam_LateLatte | 4.11 |
| 8 | Late Unai Ritidian (Iron Age, Guam)Guam_LateUnai_Ritidian | 4.21 |
| 9 | Historical (Antiquity, Malaysia)Malaysia_historical | 4.23 |
| 10 | Hanben (Iron Age, Taiwan)Taiwan_Hanben_IA | 4.49 |
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.