Ancient population · Iron Age
Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)
Vanuatu_3000BP
Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Vanuatu_3000BP), with 1 sample from Vanuatu, dated to c. 1000 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Latte (Medieval, Guam), Mariana Islands Latte and TON (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP); the nearest living populations are Luzon, Igorot and Ami.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is B4a.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 1000 BCE
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Sampled near
- Teouma -17.79, 168.37
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- LipsonReichCurrBiol2020
- Catalogue
Vanuatu_3000BP
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 | Latte (Medieval, Guam)Guam_Latte | 4.63 |
| 2 | Mariana Islands LatteMarianaIslands_Latte | 4.64 |
| 3 | TON (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)TON_2500BP | 4.68 |
| 4 | Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)Tonga_2500BP | 4.73 |
| 5 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2900 BP) · 2900BP_all2900BP_all | 4.90 |
| 6 | Late Latte (Medieval, Guam)Guam_LateLatte | 5.14 |
| 7 | TWN Hanben (Antiquity)TWN_Hanben | 5.23 |
| 8 | Late Unai Ritidian (Iron Age, Guam)Guam_LateUnai_Ritidian | 5.25 |
| 9 | Tonga (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)Tonga_2700BP | 5.35 |
| 10 | Hanben (Iron Age, Taiwan)Taiwan_Hanben_IA | 5.37 |
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.