Ancient population · Iron Age
Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)
Tonga_2500BP
Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tonga_2500BP), with 1 sample from Malawi, dated to c. 670 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to TON (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP), Late Unai Ritidian (Iron Age, Guam) and Mariana Islands Latte; the nearest living populations are Luzon, Igorot and Dusun.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is B4a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 670 BCE
- Country
- Malawi
- Origin
- Malawi
- Sampled near
- Talasiu site -21.18, -175.12
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- PosthPowellNatEcolEvol2018
- Catalogue
Tonga_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 | TON (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)TON_2500BP | 2.64 |
| 2 | Late Unai Ritidian (Iron Age, Guam)Guam_LateUnai_Ritidian | 3.38 |
| 3 | Mariana Islands LatteMarianaIslands_Latte | 3.58 |
| 4 | Latte (Medieval, Guam)Guam_Latte | 3.61 |
| 5 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · 2900BP_all2900BP_all | 3.87 |
| 6 | TWN Hanben (Antiquity)TWN_Hanben | 3.96 |
| 7 | Late Latte (Medieval, Guam)Guam_LateLatte | 3.98 |
| 8 | Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)Tonga_2700BP | 4.26 |
| 9 | Hanben (Iron Age, Taiwan)Taiwan_Hanben_IA | 4.29 |
| 10 | Historical (Antiquity, Malaysia)Malaysia_historical | 4.72 |
Haplogroups
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.