Genetic, Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on Human Diversity in Southeast Asia

Abstract

Genetic, Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on Human Diversity in Southeast Asia is the result of a collaborative effort to stimulate interaction between scientists from different disciplines who share a common interest: the role of Southeast Asia in the history of modern humans. The book furnishes a number of papers summarizing the major lines of research in the region, which were presented at an international conference at the University of Yunnan (China) in June 2000. This volume consists of 11 separate contributions organized into four parts: “Prehistory of Human Populations: Archaeological, Linguistic and Paleontological Perspectives,” “The Peopling of Southeast Asia,” “The Peopling of East Asia,” and “The Peopling of Oceania.”