Human dispersal history in Southeast Asia and Oceania

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23247040
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Physical anthropology
• Research Institution: Sapporo Medical University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUMURA HIROFUMI 札幌医科大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (70209617)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SAITOU Naruya 国立遺伝学研究所, 集団遺伝研究部門, 教授 (30192587) ; TOKUNAGA Katsushi 東京大学, 医学系研究科, 教授 (40163977) ; SHINODA Ken-ichi 国立科学博物館, 人類研究部, 研究調整役 (30131923) ; INTOH Michiko 国立民族学博物館, 民族社会研究部, 教授 (40203418) ; YAMAGATA Mariko 金沢大学, 国際文化資源学研究センター, 特任教授 (90409582)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 人類学 / 形態 / ゲノム / 考古学 / 現生人類 / 東南アジア / オセアニア / 移住

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our interdisciplinary study　challenged issue of the origin, dispersal, and divergence of anatomically modern human in Southeast Asia and Oceania. The skeletal data demonstrated the significant genetic discontinuity between the pre- and post- agricultural populations, theologically linked with pre-modern dispersal of language families concurrent with mass population movements during the Neolithic period. Further, the skeletal data demonstrated that the majority of those agricultural people share a suite of features with Northeast Asians one hand, pre-existing indigenous hunter-gatherers were akin to Australian Aborigines and Papuans other hand. The 　genetic data infers Negrito people originated from the earlier indigenous, with extremely deep historical roots. Archeological records suggests Oceania islanders had multiple cultural contacts, attributed to multi-directional movements from Southeast Asia and Melanesia.

Free Research Field

形態人類学