Tracing the origin of Indonesian people through genetics
via The Conversation, 17 October 2017: Using mitocondrial DNA, we found haplogroups M, F, Y2 and B in the western ...
Tag: “Out of Taiwan” model (Austronesian migration)
Model proposed by Peter Bellwood of the Australian National University of a seaborne human migration by Austronesian-speaking populations from South China and Taiwan into Southeast Asia from around 3,000-1,000 BCE.
Archaeogenetics paints a more complex picture of the Austronesian expansion
A detailed study of DNA of Pacific Islanders finds that their mitochondrial DNA were present in Island Southeast Asia from ...
Cemetery in Vanuatu sheds light on the Polynesians in the Pacific
Bones from a 3,000-year-old cemetery in Vanuatu suggest that the earliest humans in the pacific were more similar to that ...
Gunung Padang excavators working out of questionable assumptions
A controversial archaeological excavation is taking place at Gunung Padang, a megalith site in Java, where the investigators are looking ...
Chickens crossed the Pacific from Southeast Asia, but didn’t reach South America
A study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences unravels the origins of chickens and how ...
Grain finds in Yunnan raises interesting questions for prehistoric migration into Southeast Asia
A find from China that may have some bearing on Southeast Asia - 4,000-year-old wheat and millet have been found ...
New research suggests Madagascar seeded by some 30 Indonesian women
Archaeologists have long known about the linguistic and genetic links between Madagascar and Indonesia; new research suggests that Madagascar was ...
New book: Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement, and Social Change
This special double-issue on the deep history of rice in Asia has just appeared in print, with a number of ...
Expedition to sail the Philippine seas in ancient watercraft
A Filipino expedition is preparing to navigate the Philippine seas using an ancient reconstructed boat type called the Balanghay. This ...
Tracking human migration through bacteria
While we're on the topic of the Austronesian migration, the same issue of Science also carried another article about the ...
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