Maps of Tai-Kadai
Avenues for further Austronesian Expansion Research
Avenues for further Austronesian Expansion Research
Map Creator:
Erin Smith
Data Sources: Blench, Roger. 2010. Almost everything you believed about Austronesian isn't true. 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. Powerpoint.
Blench, Roger. 2010. Remapping the Austronesian Expansion.
Contact: erin
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Date Created: 20 April 2011.
Map Description:
This map presents a series of hypothesized migration routes undertaken by Austronesian language speakers stretching back as far as 6000 BP. In his festschrift, "Remapping the Austronesian Expansion", Blench discusses the need to diversify the areas of the world examined in Austronesian studies, and each of the paths represented here are indicative of areas where possible (or documented) links have been established through archaeological, linguistic or biological research (Blench). In the feature info pane for each of the more controversial figures, a brief note has been added regarding the manner of the evidence that Blench cites. As he states, further study should be taken on in order to verify or invalidate these claims.
Data Sources: Blench, Roger. 2010. Almost everything you believed about Austronesian isn't true. 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. Powerpoint.
Blench, Roger. 2010. Remapping the Austronesian Expansion.
Contact: erin
linguistlist.org
Date Created: 20 April 2011.
Map Description:
This map presents a series of hypothesized migration routes undertaken by Austronesian language speakers stretching back as far as 6000 BP. In his festschrift, "Remapping the Austronesian Expansion", Blench discusses the need to diversify the areas of the world examined in Austronesian studies, and each of the paths represented here are indicative of areas where possible (or documented) links have been established through archaeological, linguistic or biological research (Blench). In the feature info pane for each of the more controversial figures, a brief note has been added regarding the manner of the evidence that Blench cites. As he states, further study should be taken on in order to verify or invalidate these claims.
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).
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