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Laboratory of Physical Anthropology
Directed by Professor Hirofumi Matsumura Ph.D.
Eastern Eurasia, occupied by anatomically modern humans (AMH) at least 50,000 years ago, was a corridor through which AMH expanded to Oceania and America. Our research project challenges the potential issues for understanding population history of Asia-Pacific region, through mapping population genetic landscape based on the skeletal and dental morphological data. Our recent works have demonstrated demographic transition and demic migration throughout prehistoric to modern times in various regions, with clearly supporting “Two layer” model, which hypothesizes that the AMH initially occupied Southeast Asia (the first layer, akin to Australo-Melanesians) were later exchanged genetic material by demic expansion (the second layer) from Northeast Asia, leading to the formation of present day East Asians.
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Our excavation project with ANU at the Neolithic site of Man Bac in Vietnam
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Excavation at Gua Harimau in Sumatra
Original Articles
- Craniometrics Reveal “Two Layers" of Prehistoric Human Dispersal in Eastern Eurasia新規ページで開きます
- Cranio-morphometric and aDNA corroboration of the Austronesian dispersal model in ancient Island Southeast Asia: Support from Gua Harimau, Indonesia新規ページで開きます
Original Articles etc (others)
Book
- Book (download free) New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory新規ページで開きます
- Book (download free) Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam新規ページで開きます
- Book (download free) Bio-Anthropological Studies of Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Sites at Huiyaotian and Liyupo in Guangxi, China.(PDF)新規ページで開きます