Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2018 Jul 6;361(6397):88-92.
doi: 10.1126/science.aat3628.

The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia

Hugh McColl  1 Fernando Racimo  1 Lasse Vinner  1 Fabrice Demeter  1   2 Takashi Gakuhari  3   4 J Víctor Moreno-Mayar  1 George van Driem  5   6 Uffe Gram Wilken  1 Andaine Seguin-Orlando  1   7 Constanza de la Fuente Castro  1 Sally Wasef  8 Rasmi Shoocongdej  9 Viengkeo Souksavatdy  10 Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy  10 Mohd Mokhtar Saidin  11 Morten E Allentoft  1 Takehiro Sato  12 Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas  13 Farhang A Aghakhanian  14 Thorfinn Korneliussen  1 Ana Prohaska  15 Ashot Margaryan  1   16 Peter de Barros Damgaard  1 Supannee Kaewsutthi  17 Patcharee Lertrit  17 Thi Mai Huong Nguyen  18 Hsiao-Chun Hung  19 Thi Minh Tran  18 Huu Nghia Truong  18 Giang Hai Nguyen  18 Shaiful Shahidan  11 Ketut Wiradnyana  20 Hiromi Matsumae  4 Nobuo Shigehara  21 Minoru Yoneda  22 Hajime Ishida  23 Tadayuki Masuyama  24 Yasuhiro Yamada  25 Atsushi Tajima  12 Hiroki Shibata  26 Atsushi Toyoda  27 Tsunehiko Hanihara  4 Shigeki Nakagome  28 Thibaut Deviese  29 Anne-Marie Bacon  30 Philippe Duringer  31   32 Jean-Luc Ponche  33 Laura Shackelford  34 Elise Patole-Edoumba  35 Anh Tuan Nguyen  18 Bérénice Bellina-Pryce  36 Jean-Christophe Galipaud  37 Rebecca Kinaston  38   39 Hallie Buckley  38 Christophe Pottier  40 Simon Rasmussen  41 Tom Higham  29 Robert A Foley  42 Marta Mirazón Lahr  42 Ludovic Orlando  1   7 Martin Sikora  1 Maude E Phipps  14 Hiroki Oota  4 Charles Higham  43   44 David M Lambert  8 Eske Willerslev  45   15   46
Affiliations

The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia

Hugh McColl et al. Science. .

Abstract

The human occupation history of Southeast Asia (SEA) remains heavily debated. Current evidence suggests that SEA was occupied by Hòabìnhian hunter-gatherers until ~4000 years ago, when farming economies developed and expanded, restricting foraging groups to remote habitats. Some argue that agricultural development was indigenous; others favor the "two-layer" hypothesis that posits a southward expansion of farmers giving rise to present-day Southeast Asian genetic diversity. By sequencing 26 ancient human genomes (25 from SEA, 1 Japanese Jōmon), we show that neither interpretation fits the complexity of Southeast Asian history: Both Hòabìnhian hunter-gatherers and East Asian farmers contributed to current Southeast Asian diversity, with further migrations affecting island SEA and Vietnam. Our results help resolve one of the long-standing controversies in Southeast Asian prehistory.

PubMed Disclaimer

Comment in

Similar articles

  • Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory.
    Lipson M, Cheronet O, Mallick S, Rohland N, Oxenham M, Pietrusewsky M, Pryce TO, Willis A, Matsumura H, Buckley H, Domett K, Nguyen GH, Trinh HH, Kyaw AA, Win TT, Pradier B, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Candilio F, Changmai P, Fernandes D, Ferry M, Gamarra B, Harney E, Kampuansai J, Kutanan W, Michel M, Novak M, Oppenheimer J, Sirak K, Stewardson K, Zhang Z, Flegontov P, Pinhasi R, Reich D. Lipson M, et al. Science. 2018 Jul 6;361(6397):92-95. doi: 10.1126/science.aat3188. Epub 2018 May 17. Science. 2018. PMID: 29773666 Free PMC article.
  • Human evolutionary history in Eastern Eurasia using insights from ancient DNA.
    Zhang M, Fu Q. Zhang M, et al. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2020 Jun;62:78-84. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2020.06.009. Epub 2020 Jul 17. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2020. PMID: 32688244 Review.
  • The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia.
    Narasimhan VM, Patterson N, Moorjani P, Rohland N, Bernardos R, Mallick S, Lazaridis I, Nakatsuka N, Olalde I, Lipson M, Kim AM, Olivieri LM, Coppa A, Vidale M, Mallory J, Moiseyev V, Kitov E, Monge J, Adamski N, Alex N, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Candilio F, Callan K, Cheronet O, Culleton BJ, Ferry M, Fernandes D, Freilich S, Gamarra B, Gaudio D, Hajdinjak M, Harney É, Harper TK, Keating D, Lawson AM, Mah M, Mandl K, Michel M, Novak M, Oppenheimer J, Rai N, Sirak K, Slon V, Stewardson K, Zalzala F, Zhang Z, Akhatov G, Bagashev AN, Bagnera A, Baitanayev B, Bendezu-Sarmiento J, Bissembaev AA, Bonora GL, Chargynov TT, Chikisheva T, Dashkovskiy PK, Derevianko A, Dobeš M, Douka K, Dubova N, Duisengali MN, Enshin D, Epimakhov A, Fribus AV, Fuller D, Goryachev A, Gromov A, Grushin SP, Hanks B, Judd M, Kazizov E, Khokhlov A, Krygin AP, Kupriyanova E, Kuznetsov P, Luiselli D, Maksudov F, Mamedov AM, Mamirov TB, Meiklejohn C, Merrett DC, Micheli R, Mochalov O, Mustafokulov S, Nayak A, Pettener D, Potts R, Razhev D, Rykun M, Sarno S, Savenkova TM, Sikhymbaeva K, Slepchenko SM, Soltobaev OA, Stepanova N, Svyatko S, Tabaldiev K, Teschler-Nicola M, Tishkin AA, Tkachev VV, Vasilyev S, Velemínský P, … See abstract for full author list ➔ Narasimhan VM, et al. Science. 2019 Sep 6;365(6457):eaat7487. doi: 10.1126/science.aat7487. Science. 2019. PMID: 31488661 Free PMC article.
  • Sequence analyses of Malaysian Indigenous communities reveal historical admixture between Hoabinhian hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers.
    Aghakhanian F, Hoh BP, Yew CW, Kumar Subbiah V, Xue Y, Tyler-Smith C, Ayub Q, Phipps ME. Aghakhanian F, et al. Sci Rep. 2022 Aug 12;12(1):13743. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-17884-8. Sci Rep. 2022. PMID: 35962005 Free PMC article.
  • Reconstruction of ancestral footfalls in South Asia using genomic data.
    Chakraborty S, Basu A. Chakraborty S, et al. J Biosci. 2019 Jul;44(3):74. J Biosci. 2019. PMID: 31389363 Review.

Cited by

Publication types

LinkOut - more resources