The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia.
McColl, Hugh 1,*; Racimo, Fernando 1,*; Vinner, Lasse 1,*; Demeter, Fabrice 1,2,*; Gakuhari, Takashi 3,4; Moreno-Mayar, J. Victor 1; van Driem, George 5,6; Gram Wilken, Uffe 1; Seguin-Orlando, Andaine 1,7; de la Fuente Castro, Constanza 1; Wasef, Sally 8; Shoocongdej, Rasmi ,,9; Souksavatdy, Viengkeo 10; Sayavongkhamdy, Thongsa 10; Saidin, Mohd Mokhtar 11; Allentoft, Morten E. 1; Sato, Takehiro 12; Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo 13; Aghakhanian, Farhang A. 14; Korneliussen, Thorfinn 1; Prohaska, Ana 15; Margaryan, Ashot 1,16; de Barros Damgaard, Peter 1; Kaewsutthi, Supannee 17; Lertrit, Patcharee 17; Nguyen, Thi Mai Huong 18; Hung, Hsiao-chun 19; Minh Tran, Thi 18; Nghia Truong, Huu 18; Nguyen, Giang Hai 18; Shahidan, Shaiful 11; Wiradnyana, Ketut 20; Matsumae, Hiromi 4; Shigehara, Nobuo 21; Yoneda, Minoru 22; Ishida, Hajime 23; Masuyama, Tadayuki 24; Yamada, Yasuhiro 25; Tajima, Atsushi 12; Shibata, Hiroki 26; Toyoda, Atsushi 27; Hanihara, Tsunehiko 4; Nakagome, Shigeki 28; Deviese, Thibaut 29; Bacon, Anne-Marie 30; Duringer, Philippe 31,32; Ponche, Jean-Luc 33; Shackelford, Laura 34; Patole-Edoumba, Elise 35; Nguyen, Anh Tuan 18; Bellina-Pryce, Berenice ,36; Galipaud, Jean-Christophe 37; Kinaston, Rebecca 38,39; Buckley, Hallie 38; Pottier, Christophe 40; Rasmussen, Simon 41; Higham, Tom 29; Foley, Robert A. 42; Lahr, Marta Mirazon ,42; Orlando, Ludovic 1,7; Sikora, Martin 1; Phipps, Maude E. 14; Oota, Hiroki 4; Higham, Charles 43,44; Lambert, David M. ,,,8; Willerslev, Eske ,,,1,15,45,+
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Science.
361(6397):88-92, July 06, 2018.
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The human occupation history of Southeast Asia (SEA) remains heavily debated. Current evidence suggests that SEA was occupied by Hoabinhian 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 Jomon), we show that neither interpretation fits the complexity of Southeast Asian history: Both Hoabinhian 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.
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