scholarly journals Reconstructing Austronesian population history in Island Southeast Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Lipson ◽  
Po-Ru Loh ◽  
Nick Patterson ◽  
Priya Moorjani ◽  
Ying-Chin Ko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Population History ◽  
Island Southeast Asia

scholarly journals Reconstructing Austronesian population history in Island Southeast Asia

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Lipson ◽  
Po-Ru Loh ◽  
Nick Patterson ◽  
Priya Moorjani ◽  
Ying-Chin Ko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Population History ◽  
Austronesian Languages ◽  
Ancestral Gene ◽  
Mainland Population ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Asian Populations ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Genome Wide Data

Austronesian languages are spread across half the globe, from Easter Island to Madagascar. Evidence from linguistics and archaeology indicates that the "Austronesian expansion," which began 4-5 thousand years ago, likely had roots in Taiwan, but the ancestry of present-day Austronesian-speaking populations remains controversial. Here, focusing primarily on Island Southeast Asia, we analyze genome-wide data from 56 populations using new methods for tracing ancestral gene flow. We show that all sampled Austronesian groups harbor ancestry that is more closely related to aboriginal Taiwanese than to any present-day mainland population. Surprisingly, western Island Southeast Asian populations have also inherited ancestry from a source nested within the variation of present-day populations speaking Austro-Asiatic languages, which have historically been nearly exclusive to the mainland. Thus, either there was once a substantial Austro-Asiatic presence in Island Southeast Asia, or Austronesian speakers migrated to and through the mainland, admixing there before continuing to western Indonesia.

The dating of the Island Southeast Asian Neolithic: an attempt at chronometric hygiene and linguistic correlation

Antiquity ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (240) ◽  
pp. 587-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Spriggs
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Agricultural Crops ◽  
Agricultural Economy ◽  
Island Southeast Asia

As with conventional definitions of the Neolithic anywhere, the concept in this region relies on there being an agricultural economy, the traces of which are largely indirect. These traces are artefacts interpreted as being linked to agriculture, rather than direct finds of agricultural crops, which are rare in Island Southeast Asia. This definition by artefacts is inevitably polythetic, particularly because many of the sites which have been investigated are hardly comparable. We can expect quite different assemblages from open village sites as opposed to special use sites such as burial caves, or frequentation caves that are used occasionally either by agriculturalists while hunting or by gatherer-hunter groups in some form of interaction with near-by agricultural populations. And rarely is a full range of these different classes of sites available in any one area.

History and Current Debates of Archaeology in Island Southeast Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 5159-5180
Author(s):  
Hsiao-chun Hung
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Island Southeast Asia

scholarly journals Introduction — Imagined laboratories: Colonial and national racialisations in Island Southeast Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warwick Anderson ◽  
Ricardo Roque
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Island Southeast Asia
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