Ancient population · Iron Age
Las Locas Ceramic (Iron Age, Venezuela)
Venezuela_LasLocas_Ceramic
Las Locas Ceramic (Iron Age, Venezuela) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Venezuela_LasLocas_Ceramic), with 8 samples from Venezuela, dated to c. 390–200 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Belize (Bronze Age, c. 4600 BP), Dominican Atajadizo Ceramic (Medieval) and Southeast Ceramic (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Bolivian La Paz, Aymara and Piapoco.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b (6); its mtDNA haplogroups include B2j (6) and B2d (2).
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 390–200 BCE
- Country
- Venezuela
- Sampled near
- Las Locas 10.03, -69.64
- Samples
- 8
- Published in
- FernandesReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Venezuela_LasLocas_Ceramic
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 | Belize (Bronze Age, c. 4600 BP)Belize_4600BP | 1.10 |
| 2 | Dominican Atajadizo Ceramic (Medieval)Dominican_Atajadizo_Ceramic | 1.18 |
| 3 | Southeast Ceramic (Medieval)southeast_Ceramic | 1.21 |
| 4 | Pasodel Indio Ceramic (Medieval, Puerto Rico)PuertoRico_PasodelIndio_Ceramic | 1.35 |
| 5 | Rio Uncallane (Antiquity, c. 1800 BP)RioUncallane_1800BP | 1.37 |
| 6 | Eleuthera Isl Ceramic (Medieval, Bahamas)Bahamas_EleutheraIsl_Ceramic | 1.39 |
| 7 | Dominican El Soco Ceramic (Medieval)Dominican_ElSoco_Ceramic | 1.42 |
| 8 | Dominican La Caleta Ceramic (Medieval)Dominican_LaCaleta_Ceramic | 1.46 |
| 9 | Colonial Maya (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_Maya | 1.48 |
| 10 | Rio Uncallane (Antiquity, c. 1600 BP, Peru)Peru_RioUncallane_1600BP | 1.49 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 8
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.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I17889 | M | 411-381 calBCE | Las Locas | Q1b1a1a1e2 Q-BZ1285 | B2j |
I17890 | M | 385-206 calBCE | Las Locas | Q1b1a1a Q-M3 | B2j |
I17891 | M | 381-203 calBCE | Las Locas | Q1b1a1a Q-M3 | B2j |
I17892 | M | 409-365 calBCE | Las Locas | Q1b1a1a Q-M3 | B2j |
I17893 | F | 376-201 calBCE | Las Locas | B2j | |
I17894 | M | 395-209 calBCE | Las Locas | Q1b1a Q-L54 | B2d |
I17895 | F | 450-150 BCE | Las Locas | B2j | |
I17896 | M | 352-109 calBCE | Las Locas | Q1b1a1a Q-M3 | B2d |