Maps of Hmong-Mien
Southeast Asia: Miao (Language Atlas of the Pacific)
Miao/Meo Language in China, Mainland SE Asia, and Hainan
Source(s): Wurm, S.A. and T'sou, B. K., and Bradley, D. 1987. Language Atlas of China. Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Hong Kong: Longman.
The ©ECAI Digital Language Atlas of the Pacific Area
The Language Atlas of China
Contact: S.A. Wurm, Australian Steering Committee
Map Description:
This map is an LL-MAP amalgamation of Miao (Meo) language polygons from both the Mainland S.E. Asia (N) and Hainan map (©ECAI Digital Language Atlas of the Pacific Area) and The Dialects of the Miao Language map (Language Atlas of China) to create a map showing all the Miao/Meo Language polygons in the entire SE Asia region.
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Southeast Asia: Proposed Migrations based on Genetic Analysis (HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium)
Proposed Migrations based on Genetic Analysis
Source:
The HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium. 2009. Mapping Human Genetic Diversity in Asia. Science 326: 1541-1545.
Date Digitized: 7 April 2011.
Map Description:
This map shows probable migration routes for several east Asian population groups as determined by genetic analysis. In addition to determining that genetic ancestry and linguistic affiliations were closely correlated, the HUGO Pan-Asian Consortium discovered that, "more than 90% of East Asian haplotypes could be found in either Southeast Asian or Central-South Asian populations [...] with haplotype diversity decreasing from south to north," (The HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium 2009). This suggests that southeastern Asia has a higher degree of genetic diversity than the northeast. This in turn provides evidence toward the conclusion that modern East Asian populations are at least in part descended from groups that lived in this southern area.
Furthermore, these results suggest that the two-wave hypothesis for the settlement of southeast Asia and the Pacific is not accurate. Although they state that further studies should be undertaken for verification, their current findings point toward a shared ancestry and a migration history that, "unites the Negrito and non-Negrito populations of Southeast and East Asia via a single primary wave of entry of humans into the continent," (The HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium 2009: 1545).
Date Digitized: 7 April 2011.
Map Description:
This map shows probable migration routes for several east Asian population groups as determined by genetic analysis. In addition to determining that genetic ancestry and linguistic affiliations were closely correlated, the HUGO Pan-Asian Consortium discovered that, "more than 90% of East Asian haplotypes could be found in either Southeast Asian or Central-South Asian populations [...] with haplotype diversity decreasing from south to north," (The HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium 2009). This suggests that southeastern Asia has a higher degree of genetic diversity than the northeast. This in turn provides evidence toward the conclusion that modern East Asian populations are at least in part descended from groups that lived in this southern area.
Furthermore, these results suggest that the two-wave hypothesis for the settlement of southeast Asia and the Pacific is not accurate. Although they state that further studies should be undertaken for verification, their current findings point toward a shared ancestry and a migration history that, "unites the Negrito and non-Negrito populations of Southeast and East Asia via a single primary wave of entry of humans into the continent," (The HUGO Pan-Asian SNP Consortium 2009: 1545).
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered
for compatibility with our project interface. Slight
imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration
process.
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map(s).