Reconstructing the Human Population History of East Asia Through - Ancient Genomic

Ancient genomics techniques are used to study East Asian population history, providing insights into past population's cultural and linguistic dispersals. This element provides an overview of our current understanding of the population history of East Asia through ancient genomics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Middle Pleistocene archaic humans; 3. The earliest modern humans in east Asia; 4. Overview of ancient east Asian modern human populations; 5. Northeastern East Asia; 6. Southern East Asia; 7. Yellow River and North Central China; 8. The Tibetan plateau; 9. Mongolia and the Eastern Steppe; 10. Xinjiang; 11. The Japanese Archipelago; 12. Korean peninsula; 13. Conclusions; Glossary of Ancestries; References.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew E. Bennett, Andrew E. (Chinese Academy of Sciences Bennett, E. Andrew Bennett, E. Andrew (Chinese Academy of Sciences Bennett, Bennett Andrew E., Qiaomei Fu, Qiaomei (Chinese Academy of Sciences Fu, Yichen Liu, Yichen (Chinese Academy of Sciences Liu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009246644
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0924664-4
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Elements in Ancient East Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Asia / General, Social & cultural history, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Human Geography, Genetics (non-medical), Population and migration geography