DNA shows first farmers from China.
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DNA shows first farmers from China.
Scraps of DNA thousands of years old have given archaeologists the "smoking gun" they need to show the first farmers in South-East Asia were migrants from south China.
Researchers extracted DNA from ancient bones found in modern-day Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar to estimate when new genes started flowing into the Indigenous hunter-gatherer populations of the time.
They found an influx of genes from South China coincided with the appearance of agriculture in South-East Asia around 4,100 to 4,500 years ago, alongside pottery and tools made in the southern Chinese style.
The genetic analysis corroborates and extends linguistic and archaeological evidence of human dispersal in the region, said Marc Oxenham, a bioarchaeologist at the Australian National University and co-author of the study, which was published in Science on Friday.
Full article http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018 ... na/9767568Ultimately, Professor Oxenham said, the genetic mixing between these new migrants and the Indigenous populations "create the diversity of what is now mainland and island South-East Asia: Thais, Malaysians, Vietnamese, Indonesians, Filipinos, etcetera".
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Re: DNA shows first farmers from China.
not a surprise really
the chinese have been coming here forever and pretty much formed kampot
they are often persecuted
the chinese have been coming here forever and pretty much formed kampot
they are often persecuted
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