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 …