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Kenessey DE, Stojanowski CM, Paul KS. Evaluating predictions of the patterning cascade model of crown morphogenesis in the human lower mixed and permanent dentition. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0304455. [PMID: 38935640 PMCID: PMC11210800 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/13/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE The patterning cascade model of crown morphogenesis has been studied extensively in a variety of organisms to elucidate the evolutionary history surrounding postcanine tooth form. The current research is the first to use a large modern human sample to examine whether the crown configuration of lower deciduous and permanent molars aligns with expectations derived from the model. This study has two main goals: 1) to determine if metameric and antimeric pairs significantly differ in size, accessory trait expression, and relative intercusp spacing, and 2) assess whether the relative distance among early-forming cusps accounts for observed variation in accessory cusp expression. METHODS Tooth size, intercusp distance, and morphological trait expression data were collected from 3D scans of mandibular dental casts representing participants of the Harvard Solomon Islands Project. Paired tests were utilized to compare tooth size, accessory trait expression, and relative intercusp distance between diphyodont metameres and permanent antimeres. Proportional odds logistic regression was implemented to investigate how the odds of greater accessory cusp expression vary as a function of the distance between early-developing cusps. RESULTS/SIGNIFICANCE Comparing paired molars, significant differences were identified for tooth size and cusp 5 expression. Several relative intercusp distances emerged as important predictors of cusp 6 expression, however, results for cusp 5 and cusp 7 did not match expected patterns. These findings support previous quantitative genetic results and suggest the development of neighboring crown structures represents a zero-sum partitioning of cellular territory and resources. As such, this study contributes to a better understanding of the foundations of deciduous and permanent molar crown variation in humans.
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- Dori E. Kenessey
- Department of Anthropology, U niversity of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America
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Vlok M, Buckley HR, Domett K, Willis A, Tromp M, Trinh HH, Minh TT, Mai Huong NT, Nguyen LC, Matsumura H, Huu NT, Oxenham MF. Hydatid disease (Echinococcosis granulosis) diagnosis from skeletal osteolytic lesions in an early seventh-millennium BP forager community from preagricultural northern Vietnam. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2022; 177:100-115. [PMID: 36787713 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2021] [Revised: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Con Co Ngua is a complex, sedentary forager site from northern Vietnam dating to the early seventh millennium BP. Prior research identified a calcified Echinococcus granulosis cyst, which causes hydatid disease. Osteolytic lesions consistent with hydatid disease were also present in this individual and others. Hydatid disease is observed in high frequencies in pastoralists, and its presence in a hunter-gatherer community raises questions regarding human-animal interaction prior to farming. The objective of this article is to identify and describe the epidemiology of hydatid disease in the human skeletal assemblage at Con Co Ngua. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred and fifty-five individuals were macroscopically assessed for lesions. Of these, eight individuals were radiographed. Hydatid disease was diagnosed using a new threshold criteria protocol derived from clinical literature, which prioritizes lesions specific to the parasite. RESULTS Twenty-two individuals (14.2%) presented with osteolytic lesions consistent with hydatid disease, affecting the distal humerus, proximal femur and forearm, and pelvis. Seven individuals radiographed (4.5%) had multilocular cystic lesions strongly diagnostic for hydatid disease. All probable cases had lesions of the distal humerus. The remaining lesions were macroscopically identical to those radiographed and were considered possible cases. DISCUSSION While hydatid disease has previously been found in pre-agricultural communities, the high prevalence at Con Co Ngua is non-incidental. We propose that the presence of wild canids and management of wild buffalo and deer increased the risk of disease transmission. These findings further reveal subsistence complexity among hunter-gatherers living millennia prior to the adoption of farming in Southeast Asia.
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- Melandri Vlok
- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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- College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.,School of Social Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.,Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.,Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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Matsumura H, Xie G, Nguyen LC, Hanihara T, Li Z, Nguyen KTK, Ho XT, Nguyen TN, Huang SC, Hung HC. Female craniometrics support the 'two-layer model' of human dispersal in Eastern Eurasia. Sci Rep 2021; 11:20830. [PMID: 34675295 PMCID: PMC8531373 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00295-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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This study reports a cranio-morphometric analysis of female human remains from seven archaeological sites in China, Vietnam and Taiwan that date between 16,000 and 5300 BP. The aim of the analysis is to test the “two-layer” model of human dispersal in eastern Eurasia, using previously unanalysed female remains to balance the large sample of previously-analysed males. The resulting craniometric data indicate that the examined specimens all belong to the “first layer” of dispersal, and share a common ancestor with recent Australian and Papuan populations, and the ancient Jomon people of Japan. The analysed specimens pre-date the expansion of agricultural populations of East/Northeast Asian origin—that is, the “second layer” of human dispersal proposed by the model. As a result of this study, the two-layer model, which has hitherto rested on evidence only from male skeletons, is now strongly supported by female-derived data. Further comparisons reveal that the people of the first layer were closer in terms of their facial morphology to modern Africans and Sri Lankan Veddah than to modern Asians and Europeans, suggesting that the Late Pleistocene through Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers examined in this study were direct descendants of the anatomically modern humans who first migrated out of Africa through southern Eurasia.
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- Hirofumi Matsumura
- School of Health Science, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
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- Guangxi Institute of Cultural Relic Protection and Archaeology, Nanning, Guangxi, China. .,College of History, Culture and Tourism, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi, China.
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- Institute of Archaeology, Vietnam Academy of Social Science, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Guangxi Institute of Cultural Relic Protection and Archaeology, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- Southern Institute of Social Sciences, Vietnam Academy of Social Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Quang Nam, Tam Kỳ, Quang Nam, Vietnam
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- Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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Pinhasi R, Douka K. Before and after farming: The genetic structure of South China and Southeast Asia. Cell 2021; 184:3597-3598. [PMID: 34242562 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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In this issue of Cell, Wang et al. harness ancient DNA methods to produce and analyze new genomic data from 31 individuals from South China, dated between 500 and 10,000-12,000 years ago. The study reveals a complex interplay between groups of three different genetic ancestries and provides a new perspective on interactions and agricultural dispersals in South China and Southeast Asia.
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- Ron Pinhasi
- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Althansgrasse 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Althansgrasse 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria; Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany
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Wang T, Wang W, Xie G, Li Z, Fan X, Yang Q, Wu X, Cao P, Liu Y, Yang R, Liu F, Dai Q, Feng X, Wu X, Qin L, Li F, Ping W, Zhang L, Zhang M, Liu Y, Chen X, Zhang D, Zhou Z, Wu Y, Shafiey H, Gao X, Curnoe D, Mao X, Bennett EA, Ji X, Yang MA, Fu Q. Human population history at the crossroads of East and Southeast Asia since 11,000 years ago. Cell 2021; 184:3829-3841.e21. [PMID: 34171307 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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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 humid regions. We sequenced 31 ancient genomes from southern China (Guangxi and Fujian), including two ∼12,000- to 10,000-year-old individuals representing the oldest humans sequenced from southern China. We discovered a deeply diverged East Asian ancestry in the Guangxi region that persisted until at least 6,000 years ago. We found that ∼9,000- to 6,000-year-old Guangxi populations were a mixture of local ancestry, southern ancestry previously sampled in Fujian, and deep Asian ancestry related to Southeast Asian Hòabìnhian hunter-gatherers, showing broad admixture in the region predating the appearance of farming. Historical Guangxi populations dating to ∼1,500 to 500 years ago are closely related to Tai-Kadai and Hmong-Mien speakers. Our results show heavy interactions among three distinct ancestries at the crossroads of East and Southeast Asia.
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- Tianyi Wang
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China; Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, Shanghai 200232, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Guangxi Institute of Cultural Relic Protection and Archaeology, Nanning 530022, China; College of History, Culture and Tourism, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541001, China
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- Guangxi Institute of Cultural Relic Protection and Archaeology, Nanning 530022, China
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- International Research Center for Austronesian Archaeology, Pingtan 350000, China; Fujian Museum, Fuzhou 350001, China
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- Guangxi Institute of Cultural Relic Protection and Archaeology, Nanning 530022, China
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- Fujian Longyan Museum, Longyan 364000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, Shanghai 200232, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Anthropology, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100710, China
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- Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Kunming 650118, China; Archaeological Institute for Yangtze Civilization, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, Shanghai 200232, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Kunming 650118, China; Yunnan Key Laboratory of Earth System Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA.
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, Shanghai 200232, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Liu D, Duong NT, Ton ND, Van Phong N, Pakendorf B, Van Hai N, Stoneking M. Extensive Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Vietnam Reflects Multiple Sources of Genetic Diversity. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 37:2503-2519. [PMID: 32344428 PMCID: PMC7475039 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Vietnam features extensive ethnolinguistic diversity and occupies a key position in Mainland Southeast Asia. Yet, the genetic diversity of Vietnam remains relatively unexplored, especially with genome-wide data, because previous studies have focused mainly on the majority Kinh group. Here, we analyze newly generated genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism data for the Kinh and 21 additional ethnic groups in Vietnam, encompassing all five major language families in Mainland Southeast Asia. In addition to analyzing the allele and haplotype sharing within the Vietnamese groups, we incorporate published data from both nearby modern populations and ancient samples for comparison. In contrast to previous studies that suggested a largely indigenous origin for Vietnamese genetic diversity, we find that Vietnamese ethnolinguistic groups harbor multiple sources of genetic diversity that likely reflect different sources for the ancestry associated with each language family. However, linguistic diversity does not completely match genetic diversity: There have been extensive interactions between the Hmong-Mien and Tai-Kadai groups; different Austro-Asiatic groups show different affinities with other ethnolinguistic groups; and we identified a likely case of cultural diffusion in which some Austro-Asiatic groups shifted to Austronesian languages during the past 2,500 years. Overall, our results highlight the importance of genome-wide data from dense sampling of ethnolinguistic groups in providing new insights into the genetic diversity and history of an ethnolinguistically diverse region, such as Vietnam.
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- Dang Liu
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Genome Research, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Institute of Genome Research, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Institute of Genome Research, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, UMR5596, CNRS & Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Institute of Genome Research, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Forager and farmer evolutionary adaptations to malaria evidenced by 7000 years of thalassemia in Southeast Asia. Sci Rep 2021; 11:5677. [PMID: 33707498 PMCID: PMC7952380 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83978-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Thalassemias are inherited blood disorders that are found in high prevalences in the Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. These diseases provide varying levels of resistance to malaria and are proposed to have emerged as an adaptive response to malaria in these regions. The transition to agriculture in the Holocene has been suggested to have influenced the selection for thalassemia in the Mediterranean as land clearance for farming encouraged interaction between Anopheles mosquitos, the vectors for malaria, and human groups. Here we document macroscopic and microscopic skeletal evidence for the presence of thalassemia in both hunter-gatherer (Con Co Ngua) and early agricultural (Man Bac) populations in northern Vietnam. Firstly, our findings demonstrate that thalassemia emerged prior to the transition to agriculture in Mainland Southeast Asia, from at least the early seventh millennium BP, contradicting a long-held assumption that agriculture was the main driver for an increase in malaria in Southeast Asia. Secondly, we describe evidence for significant malarial burden in the region during early agriculture. We argue that the introduction of farming into the region was not the initial driver of the selection for thalassemia, as it may have been in other regions of the world.
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Testing the utility of dental morphological trait combinations for inferring human neutral genetic variation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:10769-10777. [PMID: 32376635 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1914330117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Researchers commonly rely on human dental morphological features in order to reconstruct genetic affinities among past individuals and populations, particularly since teeth are often the best preserved part of a human skeleton. Tooth form is considered to be highly heritable and selectively neutral and, therefore, to be an excellent proxy for DNA when none is available. However, until today, it remains poorly understood whether certain dental traits or trait combinations preserve neutral genomic signatures to a greater degree than others. Here, we address this long-standing research gap by systematically testing the utility of 27 common dental traits and >134 million possible trait combinations in reflecting neutral genomic variation in a worldwide sample of modern human populations. Our analyses reveal that not all traits are equally well-suited for reconstructing population affinities. Whereas some traits largely reflect neutral variation and therefore evolved primarily as a result of genetic drift, others can be linked to nonstochastic processes such as natural selection or hominin admixture. We also demonstrate that reconstructions of population affinity based on many traits are not necessarily more reliable than those based on only a few traits. Importantly, we find a set of highly diagnostic trait combinations that preserve neutral genetic signals best (up to [Formula: see text] r = 0.580; 95% r range = 0.293 to 0.758; P = 0.001). We propose that these trait combinations should be prioritized in future research, as they allow for more accurate inferences about past human population dynamics when using dental morphology as a proxy for DNA.
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Rathmann H, Kyle B, Nikita E, Harvati K, Saltini Semerari G. Population history of southern Italy during Greek colonization inferred from dental remains. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2019; 170:519-534. [DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2019] [Revised: 05/03/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Hannes Rathmann
- DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools”Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany
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- Department of AnthropologyUniversity of Northern Colorado Greeley Colorado
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- Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research CenterThe Cyprus Institute Nicosia Cyprus
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- DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools”Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany
- Paleoanthropology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and PalaeoenvironmentEberhard Karls University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany
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Samper Carro SC, Gilbert F, Bulbeck D, O'Connor S, Louys J, Spooner N, Questiaux D, Arnold L, Price GJ, Wood R, Mahirta. Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia. J Hum Evol 2019; 134:102638. [PMID: 31446971 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2018] [Revised: 07/05/2019] [Accepted: 07/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The migration of anatomically modern humans (AMH) from Africa to every inhabitable continent included their dispersal through Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) to Australia. Significantly, this involved overwater dispersal through the Lesser Sunda Islands between Sunda (continental Southeast Asia) and Sahul (Australia and New Guinea). However, the timing and direction of this movement is still debated. Here, we report on human skeletal material recovered from excavations at two rockshelters, known locally as Tron Bon Lei, on Alor Island, Indonesia. The remains, dated to the Late Pleistocene, are the first anatomically modern human remains recovered in Wallacea dated to this period and are associated with cultural material demonstrating intentional burial. The human remains from Tron Bon Lei represent a population osteometrically distinct from Late Pleistocene Sunda and Sahul AMH. Instead, morphometrically, they appear more similar to Holocene populations in the Lesser Sundas. Thus, they may represent the remains of a population originally from Sunda whose Lesser Sunda Island descendants survived into the Holocene.
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- Sofía C Samper Carro
- Archaeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia; School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia; Centre d'Estudis del Patrimoni Arqueològic de la Prehistòria, Facultat de Lletres-Edifici B, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain.
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- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia
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- Archaeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia
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- Archaeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia
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- Australian Research Centre of Human Evolution (ARCHE), Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, 4111, Australia
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing & School of Physical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia; Defence Science and Technology Group, PO Box 1500, Edinburgh, SA, 5111, UK
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing & School of Physical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing & School of Physical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
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- Earth Chemistry, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia
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- Jurusan Arkeologi, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Gadja Madja, Bulaksumur, Yogjakarta, 55281, Indonesia
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Craniometrics Reveal "Two Layers" of Prehistoric Human Dispersal in Eastern Eurasia. Sci Rep 2019; 9:1451. [PMID: 30723215 PMCID: PMC6363732 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35426-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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This cranio-morphometric study emphasizes a “two-layer model” for eastern Eurasian anatomically modern human (AMH) populations, based on large datasets of 89 population samples including findings directly from ancient archaeological contexts. Results suggest that an initial “first layer” of AMH had related closely to ancestral Andaman, Australian, Papuan, and Jomon groups who likely entered this region via the Southeast Asian landmass, prior to 65–50 kya. A later “second layer” shared strong cranial affinities with Siberians, implying a Northeast Asian source, evidenced by 9 kya in central China and then followed by expansions of descendant groups into Southeast Asia after 4 kya. These two populations shared limited initial exchange, and the second layer grew at a faster rate and in greater numbers, linked with contexts of farming that may have supported increased population densities. Clear dichotomization between the two layers implies a temporally deep divergence of distinct migration routes for AMH through both southern and northern Eurasia.
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KANZAWA-KIRIYAMA HIDEAKI, JINAM TIMOTHYA, KAWAI YOSUKE, SATO TAKEHIRO, HOSOMICHI KAZUYOSHI, TAJIMA ATSUSHI, ADACHI NOBORU, MATSUMURA HIROFUMI, KRYUKOV KIRILL, SAITOU NARUYA, SHINODA KENICHI. Late Jomon male and female genome sequences from the Funadomari site in Hokkaido, Japan. ANTHROPOL SCI 2019. [DOI: 10.1537/ase.190415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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- Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Chuo
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- Second Division of Physical Therapy, School of Health Sciences, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo
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- Department of Molecular Life Science, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Isehara
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- Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima
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- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba
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- Peter Bellwood
- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
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Matsumura H, Shinoda KI, Shimanjuntak T, Oktaviana AA, Noerwidi S, Octavianus Sofian H, Prastiningtyas D, Nguyen LC, Kakuda T, Kanzawa-Kiriyama H, Adachi N, Hung HC, Fan X, Wu X, Willis A, Oxenham MF. Cranio-morphometric and aDNA corroboration of the Austronesian dispersal model in ancient Island Southeast Asia: Support from Gua Harimau, Indonesia. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0198689. [PMID: 29933384 PMCID: PMC6014653 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
The Austronesian language is spread from Madagascar in the west, Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) in the east (e.g. the Philippines and Indonesian archipelagoes) and throughout the Pacific, as far east as Easter Island. While it seems clear that the remote ancestors of Austronesian speakers originated in Southern China, and migrated to Taiwan with the development of rice farming by c. 5500 BP and onto the northern Philippines by c. 4000 BP (the Austronesian Dispersal Hypothesis or ADH), we know very little about the origins and emergence of Austronesian speakers in the Indonesian Archipelago. Using a combination of cranial morphometric and ancient mtDNA analyses on a new dataset from Gua Hairmau, that spans the pre-Neolithic through to Metal Period (5712—5591cal BP to 1864—1719 cal BP), we rigorously test the validity of the ADH in ISEA. A morphometric analysis of 23 adult male crania, using 16 of Martin’s standard measurements, was carried out with results compared to an East and Southeast Asian dataset of 30 sample populations spanning the Late Pleistocene through to Metal Period, in addition to 39 modern samples from East and Southeast Asia, near Oceania and Australia. Further, 20 samples were analyzed for ancient mtDNA and assigned to identified haplogroups. We demonstrate that the archaeological human remains from Gua Harimau cave, Sumatra, Indonesia provide clear evidence for at least two (cranio-morphometrically defined) and perhaps even three (in the context of the ancient mtDNA results) distinct populations from two separate time periods. The results of these analyses provide substantive support for the ADH model in explaining the origins and population history of ISEA peoples.
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- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- The National Research Centre of Archaeology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Institute of Archaeology, Vietnam Academy of Social Science, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan
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- Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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- School of Archeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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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. Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory. Science 2018; 361:92-95. [PMID: 29773666 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat3188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Accepted: 05/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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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.
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- Mark Lipson
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.,Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.,School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822, USA
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 75016 Paris, France.,UMR 7055 Préhistoire et Technologie, Université Paris Nanterre, 92023 Nanterre, France.,CEA/CNRS UMR 3685 NIMBE, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
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- School of Health Science, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
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- Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, Vietnam Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, Vietnam Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Archaeology, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture, Mandalay, Myanmar
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- Department of Archaeology, Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture, Mandalay, Myanmar
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- UMR 7055 Préhistoire et Technologie, Université Paris Nanterre, 92023 Nanterre, France
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Cagliari e per le Province di Oristano e Sud Sardegna, 09124 Cagliari, Italy.,Physical Anthropology Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, 70103 Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.,Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.,CIAS, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra 3000-456, Portugal
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.,School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.,Center of Excellence in Bioresources for Agriculture, Industry and Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.,Institute for Anthropological Research, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.,Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, 70103 Ostrava, Czech Republic.,Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria. .,Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. .,Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Yew CW, Hoque MZ, Pugh-Kitingan J, Minsong A, Voo CLY, Ransangan J, Lau STY, Wang X, Saw WY, Ong RTH, Teo YY, Xu S, Hoh BP, Phipps ME, Kumar SV. Genetic relatedness of indigenous ethnic groups in northern Borneo to neighboring populations from Southeast Asia, as inferred from genome-wide SNP data. Ann Hum Genet 2018. [PMID: 29521412 DOI: 10.1111/ahg.12246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The region of northern Borneo is home to the current state of Sabah, Malaysia. It is located closest to the southern Philippine islands and may have served as a viaduct for ancient human migration onto or off of Borneo Island. In this study, five indigenous ethnic groups from Sabah were subjected to genome-wide SNP genotyping. These individuals represent the "North Borneo"-speaking group of the great Austronesian family. They have traditionally resided in the inland region of Sabah. The dataset was merged with public datasets, and the genetic relatedness of these groups to neighboring populations from the islands of Southeast Asia, mainland Southeast Asia and southern China was inferred. Genetic structure analysis revealed that these groups formed a genetic cluster that was independent of the clusters of neighboring populations. Additionally, these groups exhibited near-absolute proportions of a genetic component that is also common among Austronesians from Taiwan and the Philippines. They showed no genetic admixture with Austro-Melanesian populations. Furthermore, phylogenetic analysis showed that they are closely related to non-Austro-Melansian Filipinos as well as to Taiwan natives but are distantly related to populations from mainland Southeast Asia. Relatively lower heterozygosity and higher pairwise genetic differentiation index (FST ) values than those of nearby populations indicate that these groups might have experienced genetic drift in the past, resulting in their differentiation from other Austronesians. Subsequent formal testing suggested that these populations have received no gene flow from neighboring populations. Taken together, these results imply that the indigenous ethnic groups of northern Borneo shared a common ancestor with Taiwan natives and non-Austro-Melanesian Filipinos and then isolated themselves on the inland of Sabah. This isolation presumably led to no admixture with other populations, and these individuals therefore underwent strong genetic differentiation. This report contributes to addressing the paucity of genetic data on representatives from this strategic region of ancient human migration event(s).
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- Chee Wei Yew
- Biotechnology Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, Sabah, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, Sabah, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Heritage, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, Sabah, Malaysia
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- Borneo Marine Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, Sabah, Malaysia
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, Sabah, Malaysia
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- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Max Planck Independent Research Group on Population Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB), Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTec University, Shanghai, China.,Collaborative Innovation Centre of Genetics and Development, Shanghai, China
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- Institute for Molecular Medical Biotechnology, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia.,Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, Sabah, Malaysia
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Yew CW, Lu D, Deng L, Wong LP, Ong RTH, Lu Y, Wang X, Yunus Y, Aghakhanian F, Mokhtar SS, Hoque MZ, Voo CLY, Abdul Rahman T, Bhak J, Phipps ME, Xu S, Teo YY, Kumar SV, Hoh BP. Genomic structure of the native inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia and North Borneo suggests complex human population history in Southeast Asia. Hum Genet 2018; 137:161-173. [DOI: 10.1007/s00439-018-1869-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2017] [Accepted: 01/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Corny J, Galland M, Arzarello M, Bacon AM, Demeter F, Grimaud-Hervé D, Higham C, Matsumura H, Nguyen LC, Nguyen TKT, Nguyen V, Oxenham M, Sayavongkhamdy T, Sémah F, Shackelford LL, Détroit F. Dental phenotypic shape variation supports a multiple dispersal model for anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia. J Hum Evol 2017; 112:41-56. [PMID: 29037415 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2016] [Revised: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
The population history of anatomically modern humans (AMH) in Southeast Asia (SEA) is a highly debated topic. The impact of sea level variations related to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the Neolithic diffusion on past population dispersals are two key issues. We have investigated competing AMH dispersal hypotheses in SEA through the analysis of dental phenotype shape variation on the basis of very large archaeological samples employing two complementary approaches. We first explored the structure of between- and within-group shape variation of permanent human molar crowns. Second, we undertook a direct test of competing hypotheses through a modeling approach. Our results identify a significant LGM-mediated AMH expansion and a strong biological impact of the spread of Neolithic farmers into SEA during the Holocene. The present work thus favors a "multiple AMH dispersal" hypothesis for the population history of SEA, reconciling phenotypic and recent genomic data.
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- Julien Corny
- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, EFS, ADES UMR 7268, 13916, Marseille, France.
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- University College Dublin, School of Archaeology, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Musée de l'Homme, Département Homme et environnement, CNRS, UMR 7206, 75116, Paris, France
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- Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Dipartimento Studi Umanistici, 44121, Ferrara, Italy
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- Université Paris-Descartes, Faculté de chirurgie dentaire, UMR 5288 CNRS, AMIS, 92120, Montrouge, France
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- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Musée de l'Homme, Département Homme et environnement, CNRS, UMR 7206, 75116, Paris, France; Center for GeoGenetics, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Musée de l'Homme, Département Homme et environnement, CNRS, UMR 7194, 75116, Paris, France
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- University of Otago, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Sapporo Medical University, School of Health Science, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan
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- Center for Southeast Asian Prehistory, 96/203 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Australian National University, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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- Department of National Heritage, Ministry of Information and Culture, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic
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- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Musée de l'Homme, Département Homme et environnement, CNRS, UMR 7194, 75116, Paris, France
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- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Musée de l'Homme, Département Homme et environnement, CNRS, UMR 7194, 75116, Paris, France
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XING SONG, GUAN YING, O’HARA MACKIE, CAI HUIYANG, WANG XIAOMIN, GAO XING. Late Pleistocene hominin teeth from Laoya Cave, southern China. ANTHROPOL SCI 2017. [DOI: 10.1537/ase.170802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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- SONG XING
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
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- Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
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Polanski JM, Marsh HE, Maddux SD. Dental size reduction in Indonesian Homo erectus: Implications for the PU-198 premolar and the appearance of Homo sapiens on Java. J Hum Evol 2016; 90:49-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2015] [Revised: 05/04/2015] [Accepted: 09/10/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Oxenham MF, Matsumura H. Letter to the editor: Ban Non Wat as a test of the two-layer hypothesis. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2015; 159:355-7. [DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Marc F. Oxenham
- School of Archaeology and Anthropology; Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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- School of Health Science; Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan
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King CL, Tayles N, Higham C, Strand-Viđarsdóttir U, Bentley RA, Macpherson CG, Nowell G. Using isotopic evidence to assess the impact of migration and the two-layer hypothesis in prehistoric Northeast Thailand. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2015; 158:141-50. [PMID: 26118989 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Revised: 05/12/2015] [Accepted: 05/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The nature of the agricultural transition in Southeast Asia has been a topic of some debate for archaeologists over the past decades. A prominent model, known as the two-layer hypothesis, states that indigenous hunter-gatherers were subsumed by the expansion of exotic Neolithic farmers into the area around 2000 BC. These farmers had ultimate origins in East Asia and brought rice and millet agriculture. Ban Non Wat is one of the few archaeological sites in Southeast Asia where this model can potentially be tested. The site is located in the Mun River valley of Northeast Thailand, and divided into 12 phases that span over 2,000 years, from about 1750 BC to the end of the Iron Age (ca. 500 AD). These phases exhibit successive cultural changes, and current interpretation of the site is of an early hunter-gatherer population, with agriculturalists immigrating into the later phases. METHODS We analyzed strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotopes in tooth enamel from over 150 individuals, dating from the Neolithic to Iron Age, to assess extrinsic origins and differences in diet between early and later phases. RESULTS We find evidence of dietary and cultural differences between groups at Ban Non Wat during its early occupation, but little evidence for immigration from distinct environments beyond the Khorat Plateau of Northeast Thailand. CONCLUSIONS The lack of consistent isotopic differences between early and later Neolithic occupants at Ban Non Wat means that the site does not conclusively support the two-layer hypothesis.
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- Charlotte L King
- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, UK
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Luna LH. Interpretative potential of dental metrics for biodistance analysis in hunter-gatherers from central Argentina. A theoretical-methodological approach. HOMO-JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE HUMAN BIOLOGY 2015; 66:432-47. [PMID: 26071174 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2015.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2014] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The use of dental metrics as a reliable tool for the assessment of biological distances has diversified dramatically in the last decades. In this paper some of the basic assumptions on this issue and the potential of cervical measurements in biodistance protocols are discussed. A sample of 1173 permanent teeth from 57 male and female individuals, recovered in Chenque I site (western Pampas, central Argentina), a Late Holocene hunter-gatherer cemetery, is examined in order to test the impact of exogenous factors that may have influenced the phenotypic manifestation and affected dental crown sizes. The statistical association between dental metric data, obtained by measuring the mesiodistal and buccolingual diameters of the crown and cervix, and the quantification of hypoplastic defects as a measure to evaluate the influence of the environment in the dental phenotypic expression is evaluated. The results show that socioenvironmental stress did not affect dental metrics and that only the more stable teeth (first incisors, canines, first premolars and first molars) and three variables (buccolingual diameter of the crown and both mesiodistal and buccolingual measurements of the cervix) should be included in multivariate analyses. These suggestions must be strengthened with additional studies of other regional samples to identify factors of variation among populations, so as to develop general guidelines for dental survey and biodistance analysis, but they are a first step for discussing assumptions usually used and maximizing the available information for low-density hunter-gatherer societies.
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- L H Luna
- CONICET, Museo Etnográfico J. B. Ambrosetti, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, Moreno 350, 1091 Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Hawks J. Biological Anthropology in 2014: Beyond the Traditional. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/aman.12241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- John Hawks
- Department of Anthropology; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison WI 53706
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Stojanowski CM, Johnson KM. Observer error, dental wear, and the inference of new world sundadonty. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2014; 156:349-62. [PMID: 25363296 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2014] [Revised: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
Dental morphology provides important information on human evolution and interpopulation relationships. Dental wear is one of the major limitations of morphological data analysis. Wear figures heavily in existing debates about patterns of New World dental variation with some scholars finding evidence for a more generalized dentition in early New World populations (Powell: Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University, TX (1995)) and others questioning these findings based on the probable effects of dental wear on trait scores (Turner, The First Americans: the Pleistocene Colonization of the New World. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences (2002) 123-158; Turner: Am J Phys Anthropol 130 (2006) 455-461; Turner and Scott, Handbook of paleoanthropology, Vol. III: Phylogeny of Hominids. New York: Springer (2007) 1901-1941). Here we evaluate these competing claims using data from the Early Archaic Windover sample. Results confirm the dental distinctiveness of Windover with respect to other Old World Asian (i.e., sinodont/sundadont) populations. However, comparison of our results to those of Powell (1995) also highlights significant interobserver error. Statistical analysis of matched wear and morphology scores suggests trait downgrading for some traits. Patterns of missing data present a more challenging (and potentially serious) problem. Use of Little's MCAR test for missing data mechanisms indicates a complex process of data collection in which incidental and opportunistic recording of both highly worn and unerupted teeth introduce a "missing not at random" mechanism into our dataset that biases dental trait frequencies. We conclude that patterns of missingness and formal research designs for "planned missingness" are needed to help mitigate this bias.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christopher M Stojanowski
- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, AZ
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