Talk I: Phillip ENDICOTT
03 JUNE 25
IHP-EFEO Talk
Speaker:
Dr. Phillip ENDICOTT
Research Fellow, University of Tartu, Estonia
Title:
Genetic Structure of Island Southeast Asia:Identifying Sources and Dates for Recent Admixture EventsUsing High-resolution Data from the Philippines and Timor Leste
Host:
Dr. Wang Kuan-Wen
Assistant Research Fellow & Head, Research Center on Taiwan and Southeast Asian Archaeology,
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
&
Prof. Frank MUYARD
Head, EFEO Taipei Center
Date:
June 3 (Tuesday), 2025, 15:00 pm
Venue:
Conference Room 703, Research Building, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Abstract:
The first humans in Insular Southeast Asia (ISEA) arrived at least 50,000 thousand years ago and the subsequent history of the region includes further major waves of migration that have left genetic imprints across the region. The last of these is associated with the spread of the Malayo-Polynesian (MP) branch of the Austronesian language family, which commenced at least 3,000 years ago but the resulting genetic footprint is unresolved.Attempts to correlate the distribution of MP languages with measures of DNA diversity have suffered from incompatible chronologies, with genetics typically displaying signals from the Pleistocene. Where appropriate methods have been employed the results consistently point to the Philippines as a potential source for admixture events within the last 3,000 years but rely on very few data points. Here, I describe a state-of-the-art investigation of ISEA genetic diversity that includes high-resolution data from 123 ethnolinguistic groups of the Philippines and Timor Leste, an ongoing region of contact between Austronesian and Papuan languages. The results uncover hitherto unsuspected genetic structure within the Philippines, identify specific components found across eastern Indonesia and Sulawesi, to the exclusion of potential sources in Luzon.
Organizers: The Research Center for Taiwan and Southeast Asia Archaeology at Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica & EFEO Taipei Center.
※ The talk will be given in English. Registration is not required.
conference
Speaker:
Dr. Phillip ENDICOTT
Research Fellow, University of Tartu, Estonia
Title:
Genetic Structure of Island Southeast Asia:Identifying Sources and Dates for Recent Admixture EventsUsing High-resolution Data from the Philippines and Timor Leste
Host:
Dr. Wang Kuan-Wen
Assistant Research Fellow & Head, Research Center on Taiwan and Southeast Asian Archaeology,
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
&
Prof. Frank MUYARD
Head, EFEO Taipei Center
Date:
June 3 (Tuesday), 2025, 15:00 pm
Venue:
Conference Room 703, Research Building, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Abstract:
The first humans in Insular Southeast Asia (ISEA) arrived at least 50,000 thousand years ago and the subsequent history of the region includes further major waves of migration that have left genetic imprints across the region. The last of these is associated with the spread of the Malayo-Polynesian (MP) branch of the Austronesian language family, which commenced at least 3,000 years ago but the resulting genetic footprint is unresolved.Attempts to correlate the distribution of MP languages with measures of DNA diversity have suffered from incompatible chronologies, with genetics typically displaying signals from the Pleistocene. Where appropriate methods have been employed the results consistently point to the Philippines as a potential source for admixture events within the last 3,000 years but rely on very few data points. Here, I describe a state-of-the-art investigation of ISEA genetic diversity that includes high-resolution data from 123 ethnolinguistic groups of the Philippines and Timor Leste, an ongoing region of contact between Austronesian and Papuan languages. The results uncover hitherto unsuspected genetic structure within the Philippines, identify specific components found across eastern Indonesia and Sulawesi, to the exclusion of potential sources in Luzon.
Organizers: The Research Center for Taiwan and Southeast Asia Archaeology at Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica & EFEO Taipei Center.
※ The talk will be given in English. Registration is not required.
conference