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Posth C, Nägele K, Colleran H, Valentin F, Bedford S, Kami KW, Shing R, Buckley H, Kinaston R, Walworth M, Clark GR, Reepmeyer C, Flexner J, Maric T, Moser J, Gresky J, Kiko L, Robson KJ, Auckland K, Oppenheimer SJ, Hill AVS, Mentzer AJ, Zech J, Petchey F, Roberts P, Jeong C, Gray RD, Krause J, Powell A. Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania. Nat Ecol Evol 2018; 2:731-740. [PMID: 29487365 PMCID: PMC5868730 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0498-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Recent genomic analyses show that the earliest peoples reaching Remote Oceania-associated with Austronesian-speaking Lapita culture-were almost completely East Asian, without detectable Papuan ancestry. However, Papuan-related genetic ancestry is found across present-day Pacific populations, indicating that peoples from Near Oceania have played a significant, but largely unknown, ancestral role. Here, new genome-wide data from 19 ancient South Pacific individuals provide direct evidence of a so-far undescribed Papuan expansion into Remote Oceania starting ~2,500 yr BP, far earlier than previously estimated and supporting a model from historical linguistics. New genome-wide data from 27 contemporary ni-Vanuatu demonstrate a subsequent and almost complete replacement of Lapita-Austronesian by Near Oceanian ancestry. Despite this massive demographic change, incoming Papuan languages did not replace Austronesian languages. Population replacement with language continuity is extremely rare-if not unprecedented-in human history. Our analyses show that rather than one large-scale event, the process was incremental and complex, with repeated migrations and sex-biased admixture with peoples from the Bismarck Archipelago.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cosimo Posth
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
| | - Heidi Colleran
- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
| | - Frédérique Valentin
- Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie, CNRS, UMR 7041, Nanterre, France
| | - Stuart Bedford
- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
| | - Kaitip W Kami
- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port-Vila, Vanuatu
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- Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
| | - Rebecca Kinaston
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
| | - Mary Walworth
- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
| | - Geoffrey R Clark
- Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
| | - Christian Reepmeyer
- College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
| | - James Flexner
- Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Tamara Maric
- Service de la Culture et du Patrimoine, Punaauia, Tahiti, French Polynesia
| | - Johannes Moser
- Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures, German Archaeological Institute, Bonn, Germany
| | - Julia Gresky
- Department of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
| | - Lawrence Kiko
- Solomon Islands National Museum, Honiara, Solomon Islands
| | - Kathryn J Robson
- MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
| | - Kathryn Auckland
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | | | - Adrian V S Hill
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | | | - Jana Zech
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, The University of Waikato , Hamilton, New Zealand
| | - Patrick Roberts
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
| | - Choongwon Jeong
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
| | - Russell D Gray
- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
| | - Johannes Krause
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
| | - Adam Powell
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
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