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Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory

Anna Willis
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Baptiste Pradier
Zhao Zhang
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David Reich
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Abstract

Southeast Asia is home to rich human genetic and linguistic diversity, but the details of past population movements in the region are not well known. Here, we report genome-wide ancient DNA data from eighteen Southeast Asian individuals spanning from the Neolithic period through the Iron Age (4100–1700 years ago). Early farmers from Man Bac in Vietnam exhibit a mixture of East Asian (southern Chinese agriculturalist) and deeply diverged eastern Eurasian (hunter-gatherer) ancestry characteristic of Austroasiatic speakers, with similar ancestry as far south as Indonesia providing evidence for an expansive initial spread of Austroasiatic languages. By the Bronze Age, in a parallel pattern to Europe, sites in Vietnam and Myanmar show close connections to present-day majority groups, reflecting substantial additional influxes of migrants
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cea-01870144 , version 1 (19-11-2019)

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Mark Lipson, Olivia Cheronet, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Marc Oxenham, et al.. Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory. Science, 2018, 361 (6397), pp.92 - 95. ⟨10.1126/science.aat3188⟩. ⟨cea-01870144⟩
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