Origins, Health & Demography of Ancestral Southeast Asians: 2500 BC to 1000 AD

Shortly after 3,000 BC Southeast Asia experienced an enormous suite of changes, particularly in the key areas of human biology, migration, genetic diversity, demographic expansion, dietary breadth and procurement strategies and changing health profiles. This project expands on my previous research in order to better understand both the underlying processes involved in fuelling these changes as well as assessing their impact, particularly health outcomes, on these ancient communities. This research focuses on a pivotal turning point in human history shared by hundreds of millions of people living in the Southeast Asian region today.