Ancient population · Iron Age
Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)
Vanuatu_2500BP
Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Vanuatu_2500BP), with 2 samples from Vanuatu, dated to c. 570–540 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to VUT (c. 150 BP), Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 1200 BP) and VUT (Medieval, c. 1100 BP); the nearest living populations are Nasoi, Australian and Papuan Highland B.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup M; its mtDNA haplogroups include B4a and Q2a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 570–540 BCE
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Sampled near
- Malakula -17.79, 168.39
- Sites
- Malakula
Tanna - Samples
- 2
- Published in
- PosthPowellNatEcolEvol2018
- Catalogue
Vanuatu_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 | VUT (c. 150 BP)VUT_150BP | 2.72 |
| 2 | Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 1200 BP)Vanuatu_1200BP | 3.36 |
| 3 | VUT (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)VUT_1100BP | 3.74 |
| 4 | VUT EretokVUT_Eretok | 4.16 |
| 5 | Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Vanuatu_1100BP | 4.16 |
| 6 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2600 BP)Vanuatu_2600BP | 4.83 |
| 7 | Vanuatu (c. 150 BP) · Vanuatu_150BPVanuatu_150BP | 4.85 |
| 8 | Vanuatu (c. 200 BP)Vanuatu_200BP | 7.22 |
| 9 | Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 500 BP) · 500BP_all500BP_all | 7.27 |
| 10 | Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 500 BP) · Vanuatu_500BPVanuatu_500BP | 7.31 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NasoiNasoi | 4.47 |
| 2 | AustralianAustralian | 7.99 |
| 3 | Papuan Highland BPapuan_Highland_B | 9.64 |
| 4 | KosipeKosipe | 21.84 |
| 5 | KoinanbeKoinanbe | 24.02 |
| 6 | PapuanPapuan | 24.13 |
| 7 | Papuan Highland APapuan_Highland_A | 24.63 |
| 8 | AgtaAgta | 37.81 |
| 9 | BajoBajo | 37.87 |
| 10 | JarawaJarawa | 37.89 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.