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  • Chiang Saen is a Lanna-period town that was controlled by the Burmese and Siamese at different times. Today it sits on the Thai side of the border, near the Golden Triangle separating Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. The walled city was a major centre of Buddhism for the Lanna kingdom, and there are numerous temple ruins to explore. Blog post in Bio! #chiangsaen #chiangrai #thailand #thaiarchaeology #chiangsaenmuseum #southeastasianarchaeology #ancientarchitecture #northernthailand #lannastyle #goldentriangle #archaeology #thaihistory #myanmararchaeology #konbaungdynasty #temple #tourismthailand #visitthailand #amazingthailand #watpasak #stupa #ancientruins
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  • My last post of the year on the main website is a bumper issue on the highlights from this past year in Southeast Asian Archaeology. Link in the bio or here:https://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2020/12/29/southeast-asian-archaeology-2020-year-in-review/
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Simulating island dwarfism suggests how Homo floresiensis may have come to be

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via Biology Letters, 09 October 2019: A new paper presents simulations of body size evolution based on island dwarfism, and finds that the transformation from a H. erectus to a H. floresiensis can occur quite rapidly, in as fast as 4,000 years. Article below links to the paper, while a good Conversation piece at the end of the post links to a good explainer.

Quantitative genetics of body size evolution on islands: an individual-based simulation approach

According to the island rule, small-bodied vertebrates will tend to evolve larger body size on islands, whereas the opposite happens to large-bodied species. This controversial pattern has been studied at the macroecological and biogeographical scales, but new developments in quantitative evolutionary genetics now allow studying the island rule from a mechanistic perspective. Here, we develop a simulation approach based on an individual-based model to model body size change on islands as a progressive adaptation to a moving optimum, determined by density-dependent population dynamics. We applied the model to evaluate body size differentiation in the pigmy extinct hominin Homo floresiensis, showing that dwarfing may have occurred in only about 360 generations (95% CI ranging from 150 to 675 generations). This result agrees with reports suggesting rapid dwarfing of large mammals on islands, as well as with the recent discovery that small-sized hominins lived in Flores as early as 700 kyr ago. Our simulations illustrate the power of analysing ecological and evolutionary patterns from an explicit quantitative genetics perspective.

Source: Quantitative genetics of body size evolution on islands: an individual-based simulation approach | Biology Letters

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  • Fast evolution explains the tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ from Flores Island | The Conversation, 9 October 2019

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