Orang asli barricades taken down, leaving forest open to logging
The Malaysian Insight reports that barricades put up by the orang asli to protect their traditional lands have been taken ...
Tag: indigenous peoples
Posts related to the indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia.
Indonesia’s ‘one-map’ database blasted for excluding indigenous lands
via MongaBay, 10 August 2018: Posting because of cultural heritage interest. The Indonesian government's One Map database has decided to ...
[Paper] When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?
via PNAS, 06 August 2018: A new paper in PNAS reviews the evidence of human migration into Southeast Asia and ...
Rebutting the myth that Malays have the second oldest genes in the world
Last week, a historian speaking at the ominously named “The Origins of the Malay” forum "quoted" the work of the ...
The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia
Earlier this month, a fascinating paper was published in Science about the genetic origins of Southeast Asian populations. Analysis of ...
Bajau Sea Nomads genetically adapted for freediving
A new paper published in Cell finds that the spleens of the Bajau people, the Sea Nomads of Island Southeast ...
New evidence about the ancient humans who occupied Asia is cascading in
via Aeon.co, 29 MArch 2018: Modern humans arose only once, in Africa, about 200,000 years ago. They then spread across ...
Sylvain Vogel’s World of Extreme Linguistics
via The Diplomat, 02 Feb 2018: Featuring Sylvain Vogel’s work on the Bunong people of Cambodia, who are a minority ...
Language previously unknown to linguists discovered in Southeast Asia
via Science Direct, 06 February 2018: A language previously unknown to linguists -- dubbed Jedek -- has been found in ...
Sea nomads’ Singapore roots go back centuries
via Straits Times, 28 January 2018: Several clans of Orang Laut ('sea peoples') are the indigenous population of Singapore, present ...
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