Human variation and evolution in Holocene Peninsular Malaysia

Bulbeck, F David; Lauer, Adam

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511584220.008

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“…The MLC samples of North India are consistently taller than Mesolithic samples from Western Europe and are more similar to, yet slightly taller than, eastern Europeans. One analysis is based on 21 western European samples over two millennia (Maat, 2005), another is founded on 322 samples from Latin America and spans eight millennia (Bogin and Keep, 1999), while the third focuses on Malaysian samples from the mid-Holocene to the 20th Century (Bulbeck and Lauer, 2006). Tall stature in their opinion may have several plausible explanations, including: 1) better nutrition, 2) retention of ancestral heat-adapted limb proportions, 3) outbreeding mating patterns leading to genetic heterozygosity, and 4) natural selection optimizing stride length and locomotor efficiency.…”

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“…By contrast, several recent studies of well-documented samples with significant temporal depth using rigorous analytical methods reveal a strong association between variation in stature and changing socioeconomic status. One analysis is based on 21 western European samples over two millennia (Maat, 2005), another is founded on 322 samples from Latin America and spans eight millennia (Bogin and Keep, 1999), while the third focuses on Malaysian samples from the mid-Holocene to the 20th Century (Bulbeck and Lauer, 2006). Although questions regarding the size and representativeness of the samples can be raised, the overall similarity between them is striking.…”

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Stature in Holocene foragers of North India

Lukacs

Pal

Nelson

2013

American J Phys Anthropol

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The Ganga Plain of North India provides an archaeological and skeletal record of semi-nomadic Holocene foragers in association with an aceramic Mesolithic culture. Prior estimates of stature for Mesolithic Lake Cultures (MLC) used inappropriate equations from an American White reference group and need revision. Attention is given to intralimb body proportions and geo-climatic provenance of MLC series in considering the most suitable reference population. Regression equations from ancient Egyptians are used in reconstructing stature for MLC skeletal series from Damdama (DDM), Mahadaha (MDH), and Sarai Nahar Rai (SNR). Mean stature is estimated at between 174 (MDH) and 178 cm (DDM and SNR) for males, and between 163 cm (MDH) and 179 cm (SNR) for females. Stature estimates based on ancient Egyptian equations are significantly shorter (from 3.5 to 7.1 cm shorter in males; from 3.2 to 7.5 cm shorter in females) than estimates using the American White reference group. Revised stature estimates from tibia length and from femur + tibia more accurately estimate MLC stature for two reasons: a) these elements are highly correlated with stature and have lower standard estimates of error, and b) uncertainty regarding methods of measuring tibia length is avoided. When compared with Holocene samples of native Americans and Mesolithic Europeans, MLC series from North India are tall. This aspect of their biological variation confirms earlier assessments and results from the synergistic influence of balanced nutrition from broad-spectrum foraging, body-proportions adapted to a seasonally hot and arid climate, and the functional demands of a mobile, semi-nomadic life-style.

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Stature in Holocene foragers of North India

Lukacs

Pal

Nelson

2013

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…Finally, the Java Mesolithic burials appear to be more homogeneous in their cranial shape (Table 10.11) and their dental metrics, and more distinct from the Java Neolithic burials, than Détroit (2002) inferred -although this discrepancy may reflect Détroit's reliance on a now superseded, pre-Neolithic dating for the critical Song Keplek 5 burial. Snell 1938;Jacob 1964;Jacob 1967a;Bulbeck 1981;Pietrusewsky 1981;Storm 1995;Détroit 2002;Bulbeck 2004;Bulbeck 2005a;Bulbeck and Adi 2005;Bulbeck and Lauer 2006;Noerwidi 2011-12;Bulbeck et al 2013; this paper. Détroit (2002) hypothesised that Indo-Malaysia was a region of population movements, from the terminal Pleistocene onwards, with links to what is now mainland East Asia to the north and New Guinea (and the Northern Territory) to the southeast.…”

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Taxonomic Tapestries: The Threads of Evolutionary, Behavioural and Conservation Research

2015

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“…However, the population history of the area continues to pose major questions (Bulbeck and Lauer, 2006). Most pre-Neolithic populations ceased to exist as separate communities from those of farmers, and most have adopted their languages (Benjamin, 1976;Reid, 1994).…”

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“…The mirror process, i.e., gene flow from farming populations (e.g., South Asians, Persians, southern Chinese, Mons, and Khmers) into existing hunter-gatherer groups, remains unclear (Bulbeck and Lauer, 2006). This raises a number of issues about the relationship between historical processes and phenotypic variation within Southeast Asia, the role played by different economic systems in structuring the adaptive landscape of the region, and the evolutionary relationship between prehistoric Southeast Asians and surrounding groups such as Australo-Melanesians.…”

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Ancient mitochondrial DNA from Malaysian hair samples: Some indications of Southeast Asian population movements

Ricaut

Bellatti

Lahr

2006

American J Hum Biol

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The late Pleistocene and early Holocene population history of Southeast Asia is not well-known. Our study provides new data on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, and through an extensive comparison to the known mtDNA diversity in Southeast and East Asia, provides some new insights into the origins and historical geography of certain mtDNA lineages in the region. We extracted DNA from hair samples (dating back 100 years) preserved in the Duckworth Collection and belonging to two Peninsular Malaysian individuals identified as "Negrito." Ancient DNA was analyzed by sequencing hypervariable region I (HVS-I) of the mtDNA control region and the mtDNA region V length polymorphism. The results show that the maternal lineages of these individuals belong to a recently defined haplogroup B sub-branch called B4c2. A comparison of mitochondrial haplotypes and haplogroups with those of 10,349 East Asian individuals indicates their very restricted geographical distribution (southwestern China, Southeast Asia Peninsula, and Indonesia). Recalculation of the B4c2 age across all of East Asia ( approximately 13,000 years) and in different subregions/populations suggests its rapid diffusion in Southeast Asia between the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the Neolithic expansion of the Holocene.

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Human variation and evolution in Holocene Peninsular Malaysia

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Stature in Holocene foragers of North India

Stature in Holocene foragers of North India

Taxonomic Tapestries: The Threads of Evolutionary, Behavioural and Conservation Research

Ancient mitochondrial DNA from Malaysian hair samples: Some indications of Southeast Asian population movements

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