Ancient population · Neolithic
WA Kennewick (Neolithic)
WA_Kennewick
WA Kennewick (Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (WA_Kennewick), with 2 samples from Washington, USA, dated to about 6820 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to ASO (Canada), Big Bar (Neolithic, c. 5700 BP) and Big Bar (Chalcolithic, c. 5700 BP, Canada); the nearest living populations are Amerindian North, Chipewyan and Mixtec.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b; its mtDNA haplogroup is X2a.
- Period
- Neolithic
- Date
- about 6820 BCE
- Country
- United States
- Origin
- Washington, USA
- Sampled near
- Columbia River 46.21, -119.14
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- RasmussenWillerslevNature2015
- Catalogue
WA_KennewickWA_Kennewick.SGvariant
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 | ASO (Canada)Canada_ASO | 3.37 |
| 2 | Big Bar (Neolithic, c. 5700 BP)BigBar_5700BP | 4.33 |
| 3 | Big Bar (Chalcolithic, c. 5700 BP, Canada)Canada_BigBar_5700BP | 4.39 |
| 4 | Canada (c. 400 BP)CAN_400BP | 4.80 |
| 5 | Canada (Neolithic, c. 6500 BP)Canada_6500BP | 6.24 |
| 6 | Canada (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP)CAN_6000BP | 6.30 |
| 7 | Anzick (Hunter-Gatherer, United States)USA_Anzick | 7.16 |
| 8 | NM Chaco (Medieval)NM_Chaco | 7.57 |
| 9 | Pericues (Medieval, Mexico) · MEX_PericuesMEX_Pericues | 7.62 |
| 10 | Pericues (Medieval, Mexico) · Mexico_PericuesMexico_Pericues | 7.64 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amerindian NorthAmerindian_North | 5.13 |
| 2 | ChipewyanChipewyan | 7.15 |
| 3 | MixtecMixtec | 8.19 |
| 4 | ZapotecZapotec | 8.36 |
| 5 | NahuaNahua | 8.38 |
| 6 | PimaPima | 8.55 |
| 7 | HuicholHuichol | 8.66 |
| 8 | MayanMayan | 9.22 |
| 9 | Bolivian PandoBolivian_Pando | 9.47 |
| 10 | Bolivian CochabambaBolivian_Cochabamba | 9.74 |
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.