Indian ancestry in Cambodia was present ~2,000 years ago
When STRUCTURE-style bar plots first emerged using the HGDP Cambodian samples, there were often strange residual components with affinities to South Asians. When Treemix was developed there were strange edges between South Asians and Cambodians. In discussions with Joe Pickrell, the author of Treemix, we both adduced this must be due to deep affinities to […]
Likely male-mediated Indianization in Southeast Asia
Pop N R1a1 Cambodian 125 7% Balinese 551 2% Southern Han 166 0% Northern Han 65 0% Miao 25 0% Hui 25 17% Sala 43 21% Bo’an 44 25% Dongxiang 47 32% Black, Michael L., […]
A clash of civilizations along the lower Mekong
The lower Mekong region is a fascinating zone from the perspective of human geography and ethnography. Divided between Cambodia and Vietnam, until the past few centuries it was, in fact, part of the broader Khmer world, and historically part of successive Cambodian polities. Vietnam, as we know it, emerged in the Red River valley far to […]
Language, genes, & peoples of Southeast Asia
As I am currently reading Victor Lieberman’s magisterial Strange Parallels: Volume 2. So I was very interested in a new paper from BMC Genetics, Genetic structure of the Mon-Khmer speaking groups and their affinity to the neighbouring Tai populat…