Ancient Solomon Islands mtDNA: assessing Holocene settlement and the impact of European contact |
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Authors: | Franç ois-Xavier Ricaut,Timothy Thomas,Maru Mormina,Murray P. Cox,Maggie Bellatti,Robert A. Foley,Marta Mirazon-Lahr |
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Affiliation: | 1. CNRS FRE 2960, Laboratoire d''Anthropobiologie, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, 37 allées Jules Guesdes, 31073 Toulouse cedex 3, France;2. Anthropology Department, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand;3. Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, The Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, United Kingdom;4. The Institute of Molecular BioSciences, the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, and the Bio-Protection Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Archaeologists, linguists and geneticists generally agree that Near Oceania was subject to two major pulses of human dispersal: a Pleistocene occupation around 40,000 BP and a Late-Holocene migration at 3500 BP commonly associated with the Austronesian expansion out of Taiwan. The latter led to the development of the Lapita cultural complex in the Bismarck Archipelago which resulted in the settlement of Remote Oceania and there are a variety of competing models (express train, slow boat, entangled bank, etc.) used to explain this. Recent genetic studies have focused on this issue, but none of them have taken into consideration the bias possibly introduced by 19th-century historically reported population decline caused by European contact. |
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Keywords: | Ancient DNA HVS-I region Near Oceania Solomon islands |
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