Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory

Mark Lipson; Olivia Cheronet; Swapan Mallick; Nadin Rohland; Marc Oxenham; Michael Pietrusewsky; Thomas Oliver Pryce; Anna Willis; Hirofumi Matsumura; Hallie Buckley; Kate Domett; Giang Hai Nguyen; Hoang Hiep Trinh; Aung Aung Kyaw; Tin Tin Win; Baptiste Pradier; Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht; Francesca Candilio; Piya Changmai; Daniel Fernandes; Matthew Ferry; Beatriz Gamarra; Eadaoin Harney; Jatupol Kampuansai; Wibhu Kutanan; Megan Michel; Mario Novak; Jonas Oppenheimer; Kendra Sirak; Kristin Stewardson; Zhao Zhang; Pavel Flegontov; Ron Pinhasi; David Reich

doi:10.1126/science.aat3188

Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory

Mark Lipson^*, Olivia Cheronet, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Marc Oxenham, Michael Pietrusewsky, Thomas Oliver Pryce, Anna Willis, Hirofumi Matsumura, Hallie Buckley, Kate Domett, Giang Hai Nguyen, Hoang Hiep Trinh, Aung Aung Kyaw, Tin Tin Win, Baptiste Pradier, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Francesca Candilio, Piya Changmai, Daniel FernandesMatthew Ferry, Beatriz Gamarra, Eadaoin Harney, Jatupol Kampuansai, Wibhu Kutanan, Megan Michel, Mario Novak, Jonas Oppenheimer, Kendra Sirak, Kristin Stewardson, Zhao Zhang, Pavel Flegontov, Ron Pinhasi, David Reich

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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 18 Southeast Asian individuals spanning from the Neolithic period through the Iron Age (4100 to 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	92-95
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	361
Issue number	6397
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat3188
Publication status	Published - 6 Jul 2018

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Lipson, M., Cheronet, O., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., Oxenham, M., Pietrusewsky, M., Pryce, T. O., Willis, A., Matsumura, H., Buckley, H., Domett, K., Nguyen, G. H., Trinh, H. H., Kyaw, A. A., Win, T. T., Pradier, B., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Candilio, F., Changmai, P., ... Reich, D. (2018). Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory. Science, 361(6397), 92-95. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat3188

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