Genetic, Linguistic And Archaeological Perspectives On Human Diversity In Southeast Asia
Genetic, Linguistic And Archaeological Perspectives On Human Diversity In Southeast Asia

Author: Li Jin

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2001-12-26

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9814489794

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Southeast Asia is regarded as one of the birthplaces of modern humans. Recent genetic evidence shows that it was probably the entry point of modern humans from Africa into East Asia and Oceania. With the help of new markers X mostly from the Y-chromosome and mtDNA X several recent efforts have been made to study the populations of Southeast Asia, which have been somewhat neglected in the past.A new picture of the origin and migrations of modern humans in this region is quickly emerging. In this book, the leading researchers in the studies of Southeast Asian, East Asian, and Oceanian populations present the most up-to-date results of their research.

Genetic, Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on Human Diversity in Southeast Asia
Genetic, Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on Human Diversity in Southeast Asia

Author: Li Jin

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9810247842

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Southeast Asia is regarded as one of the birthplaces of modern humans. Recent genetic evidence shows that it was probably the entry point of modern humans from Africa into East Asia and Oceania. With the help of new markers X mostly from the Y-chromosome and mtDNA X several recent efforts have been made to study the populations of Southeast Asia, which have been somewhat neglected in the past.A new picture of the origin and migrations of modern humans in this region is quickly emerging. In this book, the leading researchers in the studies of Southeast Asian, East Asian, and Oceanian populations present the most up-to-date results of their research.

New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory
New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory

Author: Philip J. Piper

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2017-03-24

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1760460958

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‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neolithic farming communities, and the development of Iron Age societies. These core enduring issues continue to be explored throughout the vast region covered here, accordingly with a richness of results as shown by the authors. Befitting of the grand scope of this volume, the individual contributions articulate perspectives from multiple study areas and lines of evidence. Many of the chapters showcase new primary field data from archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. Equally important, other chapters provide updated regional summaries of research in archaeology, linguistics, and human biology from East Asia through to the Western Pacific.’ Mike T. Carson Associate Professor of Archaeology Micronesian Area Research Center University of Guam

Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia
Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia

Author: Yousuke Kaifu

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 1019

ISBN-13: 1623492777

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Despite the obvious geographic importance of eastern Asia in human migration, its discussion in the context of the emergence and dispersal of modern humans has been rare. Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia focuses long-overdue scholarly attention on this under-studied area of the world. Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, this book gathers the work of archaeologists from the Pacific Rim of Asia, Australia, and North America, to address the relative lack of attention given to the emergence of modern human behavior as manifested in Asia during the worldwide dispersal from Africa.

Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia
Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia

Author: Marc Oxenham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-04-20

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0521825806

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Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia focuses uniquely on the physical remains of the prehistoric peoples of this region.

Bioarchaeology of East Asia
Bioarchaeology of East Asia

Author: Kate Pechenkina

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2013-07-09

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 0813045010

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Interprets human skeletal collections from a region where millets, rice, and several other important cereals were cultivated, leading to attendant forms of agricultural development that were accompanied by significant technological innovations. The contributors follow the diffusion of these advanced ideas to other parts of Asia, and unravel a maze of population movements. In addition, they explore the biological implications of relatively rare subsistence strategies more or less unique to East Asia: millet agriculture, mobile pastoralism with limited cereal farming, and rice farming combined with reliance on marine resources.

The Global Prehistory of Human Migration
The Global Prehistory of Human Migration

Author: Immanuel Ness

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-11-10

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1118970594

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Previously published as the first volume of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, this work is devoted exclusively to prehistoric migration, covering all periods and places from the first hominin migrations out of Africa through the end of prehistory. Presents interdisciplinary coverage of this topic, including scholarship from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, genetics, biology, linguistics, and more Includes contributions from a diverse international team of authors, representing 17 countries and a variety of disciplines Divided into two sections, covering the Pleistocene and Holocene; each section examines human migration through chapters that focus on different regional and disciplinary lenses

The Peopling of East Asia
The Peopling of East Asia

Author: Roger Blench

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-03-20

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 113435312X

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Recent findings in the fields of East Asian archaeology, linguistics and genetics are collected together here, making this an ideal reference tool for scholars in all disciplines working on the reconstruction of the East Asian past.

Man Bac
Man Bac

Author: Marc F. Oxenham

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1921862238

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The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the interestingly divergent affinities of the cemetery population, and discuss their meaning, particularly in association with evidence for the use of marine and terrestrial animal resources; they argue convincingly that the site documents a time when the face of the region's population was undergoing a fundamental shift, associated with a changing economic subsistence base. Physical anthropologists and archaeologists have argued for years over the timeline, the manner and the very nature of Southeast Asian population history, and this book is essential reading in this debate. Two supporting appendices describe the individual remains in detail.