The deep origins of the Han Chinese
A new paper came out today on ancient East Asian DNA. More precisely, this work focused on early and late Neolithic samples from China, especially the lower Yellow river basin (north-central China) and the Fujian in southeast China. A major result can be boiled down to the Admixturegraph to the right. The first ancient DNA […]
Version alpha of trying to understand East Asian population history is now out!
We’ve been waiting for ancient DNA to answer some questions about Eastern Eurasia for a while. I always thought Qiaomei Fu would spearhead it, but it doesn’t seem like it worked out that way. That’s bcause she’s not on a new preprint, The Genomic Formation of Human Populations in East Asia, which fills in a […]
The Neolithic roots of modern East Asian human geography
Because of the long and thorough tradition of Chinese historiography, we have a good and deep chronological record of East Asia going back two to three thousand years ago. Chinese records also help illuminate and clarify aspects of Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian, history. For example, what we know about the Indianized kingdom of Funan […]