The human colonization of the Pacific is an enduring problem in historical anthropology.
Recent advances in archaeology, historical linguistics, and bioanthropology have coalesced …

Genome-wide data, both from SNP arrays and from complete genome sequencing, are
becoming increasingly abundant and are now even available from extinct hominins. These …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

Modern genetics, ecology and archaeology are combined to reconstruct the domestication
and diversification of rice. Early rice cultivation followed two pathways towards …

Island Southeast Asia has recently produced several surprises regarding human history, but
the region's complex demography remains poorly understood. Here, we report∼ 2.3 million …

Austronesian languages are spread across half the globe, from Easter Island to
Madagascar. Evidence from linguistics and archaeology indicates that the 'Austronesian …

Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest
discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution of …

For many years the author has been tracking the spread of the Neolithic of Island Southeast
Asia (ISEA) and its extension eastwards into the western Pacific, as a proxy for dating the …

Music is a universal yet diverse cultural trait transmitted between generations. The extent to
which global musical diversity traces cultural and demographic history, however, is …

New Guineans represent one of the oldest locally continuous populations outside Africa,
harboring among the greatest linguistic and genetic diversity on the planet. Archeological …