Flores_Bena indonesian 23andme format 12 samples

The Ngada people are an indigenous ethnic group residing in the central highlands of Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. They are famous for maintaining a megalithic culture, with the village of Bena serving as one of the most well-preserved examples of their traditional way of life.

Their language falls in the Central Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.

For this video, I gathered 12 DNA samples from the indigenous inhabitants of Bena Flores from the Human Origins dataset. I used academic tools, such as admixtools 1 and 2, but also amateur tools, such as my Trait predictor and mageplot, to analyze these samples.

The Bene flores samples had significant archaic Denisovan admixture on top of the archaic ancestry already found in East Asians.

The dominant ancestry component in these samples is the southeast asian component, but they have significant oceanian admixture as well.

According to Fst analysis, the closest populations to the Ngada people are native inhabitants of Waipukang and Alor, both very australoid shifted groups of indonesians.