Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory

Mark Lipson (1) , Olivia Cheronet (2, 3) , Swapan Mallick (1) , Nadin Rohland (1) , Marc Oxenham (4) , Michael Pietrusewsky (5) , Thomas Oliver Pryce (6, 7) , Anna Willis , Hirofumi Matsumura (8) , Hallie Buckley (9) , Kate Domett (10) , Giang Hai Nguyen (11) , Hoang Hiep Trinh (11) , Aung Aung Kyaw (12) , Tin Tin Win (13) , Baptiste Pradier (7) , Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht (14, 1) , Francesca Candilio (15) , Piya Changmai (16) , Daniel Fernandes (3) , Matthew Ferry (14, 1) , Beatriz Gamarra (17) , Eadaoin Harney (14, 1) , Jatupol Kampuansai (18) , Wibhu Kutanan (19) , Megan Michel (14, 1) , Mario Novak (3) , Jonas Oppenheimer (14, 1) , Kendra Sirak (17) , Kristin Stewardson (17) , Zhao Zhang (20) , Pavel Flegontov (21) , Ron Pinhasi (22) , David Reich (23)

1 Harvard School of Public Health
2 Department of Anthropology [University of Vienna]
3 School of Archaeology [Dublin]
4 School of Archaeology & Anthropology
5 Department of Anthropology University of Hawai'i at Manoa
6 LAPA - UMR 3685 - Laboratoire Archéomatériaux et Prévision de l'Altération
7 PréTech - Préhistoire et Technologie
8 Sapporo Medical University
9 Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin
10 JCU - James Cook University
11 Vietnam Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam.
12 Department of Archaeology
13 Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture
14 HHMI - Howard Hughes Medical Institute [Boston]
15 Department of Anthropology [University of Pennsylvania]
16 Ostravská univerzita / University of Ostrava
17 UCD - University College Dublin [Dublin]
18 CMU - Chiang Mai University
19 KKU - Khon Kaen University [Thailand]
20 ISU - Iowa State University
21 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health [university of Ostrava]
22 School of Archaeology
23 BROAD INSTITUTE - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

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

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; Biological anthropology

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⟩