A Middle Pleistocene Denisovan molar from the Annamite chain of northern Laos

F Demeter, C Zanolli, KE Westaway… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Pleistocene presence of the genus Homo in continental Southeast Asia is primarily
evidenced by a sparse stone tool record and rare human remains. Here we report a Middle …

Genome of a middle Holocene hunter-gatherer from Wallacea

S Carlhoff, A Duli, K Nägele, M Nur, L Skov, I Sumantri… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Much remains unknown about the population history of early modern humans in southeast
Asia, where the archaeological record is sparse and the tropical climate is inimical to the …

[HTML][HTML] Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world

M Larena, J McKenna, F Sanchez-Quinto… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Multiple lines of evidence show that modern humans interbred with archaic Denisovans.
Here, we report an account of shared demographic history between Australasians and …

Our tangled family tree: new genomic methods offer insight into the legacy of archaic admixture

KD Ahlquist, MM Banuelos, A Funk, J Lai… - Genome biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The archaic ancestry present in the human genome has captured the imagination of both
scientists and the wider public in recent years. This excitement is the result of new studies …

[HTML][HTML] East and Southeast Asian hominin dispersal and evolution: A review

R Sawafuji, T Tsutaya, N Takahata… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract East and Southeast Asia have served as significant habitats for diverse hominins for
more than one million years. This has been demonstrated by numerous studies over the …

Denisovan and Neanderthal archaic introgression differentially impacted the genetics of complex traits in modern populations

D Koller, FR Wendt, GA Pathak, A De Lillo… - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Introgression from extinct Neanderthal and Denisovan human species
has been shown to contribute to the genetic pool of modern human populations and their …

Mitogenomes reveal two major influxes of Papuan ancestry across Wallacea following the Last Glacial Maximum and Austronesian contact

GA Purnomo, KJ Mitchell, S O'Connor, S Kealy… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
The tropical archipelago of Wallacea contains thousands of individual islands interspersed
between mainland Asia and Near Oceania, and marks the location of a series of ancient …

Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania

P Roberts, K Douka, M Tromp… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Oceania is a key region for studying human dispersals, adaptations and interactions with
other hominin populations. Although archaeological evidence now reveals occupation of the …

Constraints on marine isotope stage 3 and 5 sea level from the flooding history of the Karimata Strait in Indonesia

TL Weiss, BK Linsley, AL Gordon… - Paleoceanography …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global mean sea level (GMSL) during intermediate interglacial Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS
3)(60–26 ka) has proven difficult to constrain. Paleo‐sea level estimates based on ice …

Unveiling the Genetic History of the Maniq, a primary hunter-gatherer society

T Göllner, M Larena, W Kutanan… - Genome Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Maniq of southern Thailand is one of the last remaining practicing hunter-
gatherer communities in the world. However, our knowledge on their genetic origins and …