Ancient population · Iron Age

Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania)

TZA_Gishimangeda

Gishimangeda (Iron Age, Tanzania) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (TZA_Gishimangeda), with 1 sample from Arusha Region, Tanzania, dated to c. 200 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IA, Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic) and Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP); the nearest living populations are Hadza, Sandawe and Ethiopian Gumuz.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is L4b.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 200 BCE
Country
Tanzania
Origin
Arusha Region, Tanzania
Sampled near
Gishimangeda Cave -3.48, 35.35
Samples
1
Catalogue
TZA_Gishimangeda

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
1Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN_IATanzania_PN_IA1.01
2Tanzania Kisese LSA (Neolithic)Tanzania_Kisese_LSA2.57
3Tanzania Zanzibar (Medieval, c. 1300 BP)Tanzania_Zanzibar_1300BP3.35
4LSA (Antiquity, Kenya)Kenya_LSA5.53
5Nyarindi LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Nyarindi_LSA_Kansyore5.93
6Kakapel LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LSA_Kansyore6.49
7Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 1400 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_1400BP7.40
8Ethiopia (Bronze Age, c. 4500 BP)Ethiopia_4500BP8.16
9Mota (Ethiopia)ETH_Mota8.59
10Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)Hora_9000BP11.72
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1HadzaHadza7.76
2SandaweSandawe13.03
3Ethiopian GumuzEthiopian_Gumuz16.06
4Ethiopian MursiEthiopian_Mursi17.28
5Ethiopian Ari blacksmithEthiopian_Ari_blacksmith17.36
6KikuyuKikuyu17.63
7SengwerSengwer17.74
8Ethiopian AriEthiopian_Ari17.84
9Ethiopian Ari cultivatorEthiopian_Ari_cultivator18.29
10Ethiopian AnuakEthiopian_Anuak18.37

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSitemtDNA
I13982_newF800 BCE - 400 CEGishimangeda CaveL4b2a2