Ancient population · Iron Age

Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP)

Vanuatu_2000BP

Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Vanuatu_2000BP), with 1 sample from Vanuatu, dated to c. 90 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Vanuatu (c. 400 BP), Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2600 BP) and VUT Eretok; the nearest living populations are Nasoi, Australian and Papuan Highland B.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is B4a.

Period
Iron Age
Date
c. 90 BCE
Country
Vanuatu
Sampled near
Malakula -16.07, 167.45
Samples
1
Catalogue
Vanuatu_2000BP

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
1Vanuatu (c. 400 BP)Vanuatu_400BP4.38
2Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2600 BP)Vanuatu_2600BP6.37
3VUT EretokVUT_Eretok7.19
4Solomon Islands (Medieval, c. 500 BP)SolomonIslands_500BP8.06
5Pantar Jareng Bori Majapahit Pre-Colonial (Medieval, Indonesia)Indonesia_Pantar_JarengBori_Majapahit_PreColonial8.90
6Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)Vanuatu_2500BP9.89
7VUT (c. 150 BP)VUT_150BP10.38
8VUT (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)VUT_1100BP11.34
9Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Vanuatu_1100BP11.76
10Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 1200 BP)Vanuatu_1200BP11.80
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1NasoiNasoi6.70
2AustralianAustralian15.58
3Papuan Highland BPapuan_Highland_B18.48
4BajoBajo28.57
5AgtaAgta28.91
6AetaAeta29.49
7JarawaJarawa30.76
8BatakBatak30.78
9OngeOnge30.87
10KosipeKosipe30.92

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
MAL007F163 calBCE - 19 calCEMalakulaB4a1a1a