Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania
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Posth, Cosimo; Nägele, Kathrin; Colleran, Heidi; Valentin, Frederique; Bedford, Stuart; Kami, Kaitip W; Shing, Richard; Buckley, Hallie R.; Kinaston, R.L.; Walworth, Mary; Clark, Geoffrey; Reepmeyer, Christian
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Recent genomic analyses show that the earliest peoples reaching Remote Oceania- A ssociated with Austronesian-speaking Lapita culture-were almost completely East Asian, without detectable Papuan ancestry. However, Papuan-related genetic ancestry is found across present-day Pacific populations, indicating that peoples from Near Oceania have played a significant, but largely unknown, ancestral role. Here, new genome-wide data from 19 ancient South Pacific individuals provide direct evidence of a...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Posth, Cosimo | |
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dc.contributor.author | Nägele, Kathrin | |
dc.contributor.author | Colleran, Heidi | |
dc.contributor.author | Valentin, Frederique | |
dc.contributor.author | Bedford, Stuart | |
dc.contributor.author | Kami, Kaitip W | |
dc.contributor.author | Shing, Richard | |
dc.contributor.author | Buckley, Hallie R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kinaston, R.L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Walworth, Mary | |
dc.contributor.author | Clark, Geoffrey | |
dc.contributor.author | Reepmeyer, Christian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-08T03:32:19Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2397-334X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/164926 | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent genomic analyses show that the earliest peoples reaching Remote Oceania- A ssociated with Austronesian-speaking Lapita culture-were almost completely East Asian, without detectable Papuan ancestry. However, Papuan-related genetic ancestry is found across present-day Pacific populations, indicating that peoples from Near Oceania have played a significant, but largely unknown, ancestral role. Here, new genome-wide data from 19 ancient South Pacific individuals provide direct evidence of a so-far undescribed Papuan expansion into Remote Oceania starting ~2,500 yr bp, far earlier than previously estimated and supporting a model from historical linguistics. New genome-wide data from 27 contemporary ni-Vanuatu demonstrate a subsequent and almost complete replacement of Lapita-Austronesian by Near Oceanian ancestry. Despite this massive demographic change, incoming Papuan languages did not replace Austronesian languages. Population replacement with language continuity is extremely rare-if not unprecedented-in human history. Our analyses show that rather than one large-scale event, the process was incremental and complex, with repeated migrations and sex-biased admixture with peoples from the Bismarck Archipelago. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group | |
dc.rights | © 2018 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature | |
dc.source | Nature Ecology & Evolution | |
dc.title | Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 2 | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 209999 - Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u6048437xPUB519 | |
local.publisher.url | https://www.nature.com/ | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Posth, Cosimo, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Nägele, Kathrin, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Colleran, Heidi, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Valentin, Frederique, CNRS | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Bedford, Stuart, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Kami, Kaitip W, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Shing, Richard, National Museum of Vanuatu | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Buckley, Hallie R., University of Otago | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Kinaston, R.L., University of Otago | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Walworth, Mary, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Clark, Geoffrey, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Reepmeyer, Christian, James Cook University | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0880789 | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160103578 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 4 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 731 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 740 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41559-018-0498-2 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-02-19T07:16:49Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-85042556958 | |
local.identifier.thomsonID | WOS:000431612000028 | |
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