Ancient population · Iron Age
Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2600 BP)
Vanuatu_2600BP
Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2600 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Vanuatu_2600BP), with 1 sample from Vanuatu, dated to c. 620 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to VUT Eretok, Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP) and VUT (c. 150 BP); the nearest living populations are Nasoi, Australian and Papuan Highland B.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup M; its mtDNA haplogroup is B4a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 620 BCE
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Sampled near
- Malakula -16.07, 167.45
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- PosthPowellNatEcolEvol2018
- Catalogue
Vanuatu_2600BP
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 EretokVUT_Eretok | 2.61 |
| 2 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)Vanuatu_2500BP | 4.83 |
| 3 | VUT (c. 150 BP)VUT_150BP | 4.93 |
| 4 | VUT (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)VUT_1100BP | 6.04 |
| 5 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP)Vanuatu_2000BP | 6.37 |
| 6 | Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 1200 BP)Vanuatu_1200BP | 6.39 |
| 7 | Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Vanuatu_1100BP | 6.48 |
| 8 | Vanuatu (c. 150 BP) · Vanuatu_150BPVanuatu_150BP | 8.19 |
| 9 | Willandra Lakes (Medieval, c. 4000 BP)Willandra_Lakes_4000BP | 8.62 |
| 10 | Barham 1600BP-1400BP (Antiquity)Barham_1600BP-1400BP | 8.98 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NasoiNasoi | 2.30 |
| 2 | AustralianAustralian | 10.03 |
| 3 | Papuan Highland BPapuan_Highland_B | 13.49 |
| 4 | KosipeKosipe | 25.75 |
| 5 | KoinanbeKoinanbe | 27.97 |
| 6 | PapuanPapuan | 28.05 |
| 7 | Papuan Highland APapuan_Highland_A | 28.60 |
| 8 | AgtaAgta | 33.76 |
| 9 | JarawaJarawa | 34.02 |
| 10 | BajoBajo | 34.06 |
Haplogroups
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.