The Saudeleur Dynasty of Nan Madol

In a lagoon off Pohnpei rise about a hundred artificial islets of basalt and coral, the ruined city of Nan Madol, a World Heritage site and the seat of the Saudeleur rulers. The ten people gathered here were buried at Nan Madol on Temwen Island and on nearby Na Island in the Saudeleur era, between roughly 1420 and 1710 CE, in excavations led by J. S. Athens in 1984. The study, reviewed and approved by the Pohnpei Historic Preservation Office, found that every prehistoric and present-day Pohnpeian sampled carries Papuan admixture of around 27 percent, unlike the people of the Marianas, and that Pohnpei belongs to a Central-Eastern Micronesian branch fed by East Asian, Papuan and later Polynesian streams. Whether these particular people served the rulers or sat among them, the graves do not say.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Ancient DNA reveals five streams of migration into Micronesia and matrilocality in early Pacific seafarers.

Every Ancestry Map includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because these are a small group of real individuals, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances. That is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the Saudeleur Dynasty of Nan Madol are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about Ancestry Map, the full Global25 report.

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  Who were the Saudeleur Dynasty of Nan Madol?

  The Saudeleur Dynasty of Nan Madol (c. 1420-1710 CE, Nan Madol, Temwen Island, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia) are one of the Historical figures entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 10 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Ancient DNA reveals five streams of migration into Micronesia and matrilocality in early Pacific seafarers".

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  What does "matching" the Saudeleur Dynasty of Nan Madol mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Saudeleur Dynasty of Nan Madol?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestry Map, never sold separately. Order Ancestry Map, our Global25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

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