INTRODUCTION Genetic studies of the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas have focused
on the timing and number of migrations from Siberia into North America. They show that …

Machu Picchu originally functioned as a palace within the estate of the Inca emperor
Pachacuti between~ 1420 and 1532 CE. Before this study, little was known about the people …

Nearly 20 y ago, Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood reviewed the evidence for the
associated spread of farming and large language families by the demographic expansions …

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western
Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South …

Music is a universal yet diverse cultural trait transmitted between generations. The extent to
which global musical diversity traces cultural and demographic history, however, is …

New Guineans represent one of the oldest locally continuous populations outside Africa,
harboring among the greatest linguistic and genetic diversity on the planet. Archeological …

Abstract Studies of Native South American genetic diversity have helped to shed light on the
peopling and differentiation of the continent, but available data are sparse for the major …

Tai-Kadai (TK) is one of the major language families in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA),
with a concentration in the area of Thailand and Laos. Our previous study of 1234 mtDNA …

Indigenous peoples have occupied the island of Puerto Rico since at least 3000 BC. Due to
the demographic shifts that occurred after European contact, the origin (s) of these ancient …

Vietnam is an important crossroads within Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) and a gateway
to Island Southeast Asia, and as such exhibits high levels of ethnolinguistic diversity …