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Vanuatu (c. 200 BP)

Vanuatu_200BP

Vanuatu (c. 200 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Vanuatu_200BP), with 1 sample from Vanuatu, dated to c. 1750 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 500 BP) · Vanuatu_500BP, Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 500 BP) · 500BP_all and Vanuatu (c. 150 BP) · 150BP_all; the nearest living populations are Australian, Papuan Highland B and Nasoi.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is P1d.

Period
Ancient
Date
c. 1750 CE
Country
Vanuatu
Sampled near
Tanna -19.50, 169.33
Samples
1
Catalogue
Vanuatu_200BP
Vanuatu_200BP_oPolynesian outliers

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.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1AustralianAustralian4.81
2Papuan Highland BPapuan_Highland_B5.80
3NasoiNasoi9.95
4KosipeKosipe16.09
5KoinanbeKoinanbe18.31
6PapuanPapuan18.33
7Papuan Highland APapuan_Highland_A18.88
8JarawaJarawa42.43
9OngeOnge42.57
10AgtaAgta43.90

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

Individuals 2

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
TAN001Vanuatu_200BPM1661-1806 calCETannaO2a2b2a2b O-AM01750P1d1
I10967 outlierVanuatu_200BP_oPolynesianF1671-1950 calCEMangaasi