Ancient DNA indicates human population shifts and admixture in northern and southern China

MA Yang, X Fan, B Sun, C Chen, J Lang, YC Ko… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Human genetic history in East Asia is poorly understood. To clarify population relationships,
we obtained genome-wide data from 26 ancient individuals from northern and southern East …

Human population history at the crossroads of East and Southeast Asia since 11,000 years ago

T Wang, W Wang, G Xie, Z Li, X Fan, Q Yang, X Wu… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Past human genetic diversity and migration between southern China and Southeast Asia
have not been well characterized, in part due to poor preservation of ancient DNA in hot and …

Validating earliest rice farming in the Indonesian Archipelago

Z Deng, H Hung, MT Carson, AA Oktaviana, B Hakim… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Preserved ancient botanical evidence in the form of rice phytoliths has confirmed that people
farmed domesticated rice (Oryza sativa) in the interior of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, by at …

A review on the spread of prehistoric agriculture from southern China to mainland Southeast Asia

Y Gao, G Dong, X Yang, F Chen - Science China Earth Sciences, 2020 - Springer
The origins and spread of agriculture was one of the milestones in human history. When and
how prehistoric agriculture spread to mainland Southeast Asia is highly concerned, which …

Tracing Bai-Yue ancestry in aboriginal Li people on hainan island

H Chen, R Lin, Y Lu, R Zhang, Y Gao… - Molecular Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As the most prevalent aboriginal group on Hainan Island located between South China and
the mainland of Southeast Asia, the Li people are believed to preserve some unique genetic …

Late Jomon male and female genome sequences from the Funadomari site in Hokkaido, Japan

H Kanzawa-Kiriyama, TA Jinam, Y Kawai… - Anthropological …, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abstract The Funadomari Jomon people were hunter-gatherers living on Rebun Island,
Hokkaido, Japan c. 3500–3800 years ago. In this study, we determined the high-depth and …

First farmers in the South China coast: new evidence from the Gancaoling site of Guangdong province

Z Deng, B Huang, Q Zhang, M Zhang - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The transformation from hunter-gathering to farming in the south China coast has always
been a conspicuous topic, as its great significance for the understanding of crop dispersal …

The genomic formation of human populations in East Asia

CC Wang, HY Yeh, AN Popov, HQ Zhang… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood due to a lack of ancient
DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people. We report genome-wide data from …

A late Pleistocene human genome from southwest China

X Zhang, X Ji, C Li, T Yang, J Huang, Y Zhao, Y Wu… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Summary Southern East Asia is the dispersal center regarding the prehistoric settlement and
migrations of modern humans in Asia-Pacific regions. However, the settlement pattern and …

[HTML][HTML] Millet agriculture dispersed from Northeast China to the Russian Far East: Integrating archaeology, genetics, and linguistics

T Li, C Ning, IS Zhushchikhovskaya, MJ Hudson… - … Research in Asia, 2020 - Elsevier
Broomcorn and foxtail millets were being cultivated in the West Liao River basin in Northeast
China by at least the sixth millennium BCE. However, when and how millet agriculture …