Ancient population · Ancient
Vanuatu (c. 400 BP)
Vanuatu_400BP
Vanuatu (c. 400 BP) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Vanuatu_400BP), with 2 samples from Vanuatu, dated to c. 1550 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP), Solomon Islands (Medieval, c. 500 BP) and Pantar Jareng Bori Majapahit Pre-Colonial (Medieval, Indonesia); the nearest living populations are Nasoi, Australian and Papuan Highland B.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup C1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include B4a and P2.
- Period
- Ancient
- Date
- c. 1550 CE
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Sampled near
- Retoka -17.64, 168.16
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- LipsonReichCurrBiol2020
- Catalogue
Vanuatu_400BPVanuatu_400BP_ooutliers
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 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2000 BP)Vanuatu_2000BP | 4.38 |
| 2 | Solomon Islands (Medieval, c. 500 BP)SolomonIslands_500BP | 4.99 |
| 3 | Pantar Jareng Bori Majapahit Pre-Colonial (Medieval, Indonesia)Indonesia_Pantar_JarengBori_Majapahit_PreColonial | 5.68 |
| 4 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2600 BP)Vanuatu_2600BP | 9.19 |
| 5 | Flores Liang Toge (Late Iron Age, Indonesia)Indonesia_Flores_LiangToge_LIA | 9.44 |
| 6 | VUT EretokVUT_Eretok | 10.13 |
| 7 | Vanuatu (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP)Vanuatu_2500BP | 13.00 |
| 8 | VUT (c. 150 BP)VUT_150BP | 13.66 |
| 9 | VUT (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)VUT_1100BP | 14.71 |
| 10 | Vanuatu (Medieval, c. 1200 BP)Vanuatu_1200BP | 15.07 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NasoiNasoi | 9.94 |
| 2 | AustralianAustralian | 18.89 |
| 3 | Papuan Highland BPapuan_Highland_B | 21.71 |
| 4 | BajoBajo | 25.24 |
| 5 | AgtaAgta | 25.67 |
| 6 | AetaAeta | 26.29 |
| 7 | BatakBatak | 27.47 |
| 8 | JarawaJarawa | 29.05 |
| 9 | OngeOnge | 29.14 |
| 10 | ManiqManiq | 29.30 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 3
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.