Ancient population · Iron Age
Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)
Tonga_2700BP
Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tonga_2700BP), with 1 sample from Malawi, dated to c. 700 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to TON (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP), Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · 2900BP_all and Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP); the nearest living populations are Luzon, Igorot and Atayal.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 700 BCE
- Country
- Malawi
- Origin
- Malawi
- Sampled near
- Talasiu site -21.18, -175.12
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- SkoglundReichNature2016
- Catalogue
Tonga_2700BP
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 | 2.66 |
| 2 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · 2900BP_all2900BP_all | 3.85 |
| 3 | Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)Tonga_2500BP | 4.26 |
| 4 | TWN Hanben (Antiquity)TWN_Hanben | 4.43 |
| 5 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · Vanuatu_2900BPVanuatu_2900BP | 4.44 |
| 6 | Mariana Islands LatteMarianaIslands_Latte | 4.59 |
| 7 | Latte (Medieval, Guam)Guam_Latte | 4.64 |
| 8 | Late Latte (Medieval, Guam)Guam_LateLatte | 4.97 |
| 9 | Hanben (Iron Age, Taiwan)Taiwan_Hanben_IA | 5.07 |
| 10 | Historical (Antiquity, Malaysia)Malaysia_historical | 5.13 |
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
Sk10_noUDG | F | 805-549 calBCE | Talasiu site |