The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia.
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Authors
Vinner, Lasse
Moreno-Mayar, J Víctor
van Driem, George
Shoocongdej, Rasmi
Souksavatdy, Viengkeo
Saidin, Mohd Mokhtar
Allentoft, Morten E
Sato, Takehiro
Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo
Aghakhanian, Farhang A
de Barros Damgaard, Peter
Nguyen, Thi Mai Huong
Nguyen, Giang Hai
Wiradnyana, Ketut
Shigehara, Nobuo
Yoneda, Minoru
Masuyama, Tadayuki
Yamada, Yasuhiro
Shibata, Hiroki
Hanihara, Tsunehiko
Bacon, Anne-Marie
Ponche, Jean-Luc
Shackelford, Laura
Nguyen, Anh Tuan
Buckley, Hallie
Pottier, Christophe
Rasmussen, Simon
Phipps, Maude E
Oota, Hiroki
Higham, Charles
Publication Date
2018-07-06Journal Title
Science
ISSN
0036-8075
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Volume
361
Issue
6397
Pages
88-92
Language
eng
Type
Article
Physical Medium
Print
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McColl, H., Racimo, F., Vinner, L., Demeter, F., Gakuhari, T., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., van Driem, G., et al. (2018). The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia.. Science, 361 (6397), 88-92. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat3628
Abstract
The human occupation history of Southeast Asia (SEA) remains heavily debated. Current evidence suggests that SEA was occupied by Hòabìnhian hunter-gatherers until ~4000 years ago, when farming economies developed and expanded, restricting foraging groups to remote habitats. Some argue that agricultural development was indigenous; others favor the "two-layer" hypothesis that posits a southward expansion of farmers giving rise to present-day Southeast Asian genetic diversity. By sequencing 26 ancient human genomes (25 from SEA, 1 Japanese Jōmon), we show that neither interpretation fits the complexity of Southeast Asian history: Both Hòabìnhian hunter-gatherers and East Asian farmers contributed to current Southeast Asian diversity, with further migrations affecting island SEA and Vietnam. Our results help resolve one of the long-standing controversies in Southeast Asian prehistory.
Keywords
Humans, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Genome, Human, History, Ancient, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Population, Asia, Southeastern, Genetic Variation, Human Migration, DNA, Ancient
Sponsorship
ERC, Lundbeck Foundation
Funder references
European Research Council (295907)
Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2016-235)
Identifiers
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat3628
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284445
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