Seminar III: Phillipe Endicott
06 APRIL 23
NTU-EFEO Talk
Speaker:
Dr. Phillip Endicott (Research Fellow, University of Tartu, Estonia/ National Museum of Natural History, Paris)
Topic:
Model-free Interdisciplinary Comparisons and Their Application to Island Southeast Asia
Date:
Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 12:20-14:10
Venue:
Room 201, Administration Building, Shuiyuan Campus, National Taiwan University
Abstract:
There often arises a need in studies of human (pre)history to compare data from across different disciplines because different strands of evidence can contribute to a more informed debate. Most methods employed, however, are strictly qualitative, usually limited to tests of independence between distance-based summary statistics. Many are phylogenetic, tree-based comparisons, but this notion breaks down when there are contact scenarios creating information flow between previously separated groups.Here I present new research on Island Southeast Asia, based on the reconstruction of local genetic ancestries using haplotypes ata regional scale, before introducing two novel methods for joint analysis (model based and model free) and show their application to genetic and linguistic data at a local scale in East Timor. I will explain why the results do not support earlier attemptsfor a synthesis of archaeology, language, and genetics, but offer hope for multiplicative power of combining different types of data in genuine interdisciplinary analysis.
lecture
Speaker:
Dr. Phillip Endicott (Research Fellow, University of Tartu, Estonia/ National Museum of Natural History, Paris)
Topic:
Model-free Interdisciplinary Comparisons and Their Application to Island Southeast Asia
Date:
Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 12:20-14:10
Venue:
Room 201, Administration Building, Shuiyuan Campus, National Taiwan University
Abstract:
There often arises a need in studies of human (pre)history to compare data from across different disciplines because different strands of evidence can contribute to a more informed debate. Most methods employed, however, are strictly qualitative, usually limited to tests of independence between distance-based summary statistics. Many are phylogenetic, tree-based comparisons, but this notion breaks down when there are contact scenarios creating information flow between previously separated groups.Here I present new research on Island Southeast Asia, based on the reconstruction of local genetic ancestries using haplotypes ata regional scale, before introducing two novel methods for joint analysis (model based and model free) and show their application to genetic and linguistic data at a local scale in East Timor. I will explain why the results do not support earlier attemptsfor a synthesis of archaeology, language, and genetics, but offer hope for multiplicative power of combining different types of data in genuine interdisciplinary analysis.
lecture