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... persists in modern individuals from the Pacific islands of Melanesia could be a source of new information about early ... descendants arrived on the islands north of Australia. Melanesia is one of three major cultural areas in the Pacific ... locations in the Bismarck Archipelago of Northern Island Melanesia, Papua, New Guinea. With this study, Vernot ...
ancient-origins - 21/03/2016 - 13:52
... DNA, a new computer analysis suggests. People from Melanesia, a region in the South Pacific encompassing Papua ...
ancient-origins - 30/10/2016 - 21:04
Robbie Mitchell - 10/12/2023 - 15:57
... As shown in this map, Vanuatu is typically seen as part of Melanesia. However, new research suggests that the first ... recovered from the Teouma site and 270 more skulls from Melanesia, Western Micronesia, Australia, China and ...
Natalia Klimczak - 31/12/2015 - 00:52
A genetic study hints strongly that the Denisovans, who roamed the earth down to the end of the last ice age, possessed autistic skills, which were then passed on to their modern-human descendants.
Andrew Collins - 12/04/2021 - 15:04
In “Textbook Story of How Humans Populated America is Biologically Unviable, Study Finds”, recently published in Ancient Origins, it was noted that DNA studies indicate that people could not have crossed the Beringia land bridge to enter the Americas 13,000 years ago because the “entry route was biologically unviable”.
Clyde Winters - 05/09/2016 - 03:50
Archaeologists in Papua New Guinea have made a rare discovery – six ceremonial tools carved out of volcanic black glass, which date back around 6,000 years. However more significantly, the artefacts have been carved into the shape of a phallus which provides an indication as to their ceremonial function.
aprilholloway - 25/11/2013 - 23:51
A new genetic study of 1739 Asian individuals from 219 populations has found that on the Indian sub-continent today Denisovan DNA exists mostly among isolated, tribal communities. It also found that considerably less Denisovan ancestry exists among Asians in India and Pakistan of clear Indo-European descent. Yet the greater implications of these findings relate to the possible presence in South Asia in the distant past of Denisovans, who in Indian mythology may well be remembered as blood thirtsy demons known as the Rakshasas.
Andrew Collins - 08/12/2019 - 18:33
... only to have ever occupied eastern Eurasia , along with Melanesia, Australia, and just maybe the American continent. ... in mainland southeastern Asia, Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia and perhaps even the former Sahul landmass that ...
Andrew Collins - 25/07/2019 - 22:56
A new DNA study has confirmed that indigenous people living in multiple locations in South America are distantly related to the people of Australasia, an umbrella term that includes indigenous Australians and Melanesians (inhabitants of the islands of Oceania, which are located south of Southeast Asia).
Nathan Falde - 01/04/2021 - 01:41
The Duk Duk is a secret society of the Tolai people in Papua New Guinea. This ancient secret sect has played an important social role for centuries and continues to operate today, although with a very different focus. Members of the Duk Duk played the role of judge, jury, and executioner, though it is believed that they were possessed by spirits while performing these tasks.
dhwty - 19/02/2019 - 18:37
The size of the first population of people needed to arrive, survive, and thrive in what is now Australia is revealed in two studies published on June 17.
It took more than 1,000 people to form a viable population. But this was no accidental migration, as our work shows the first arrivals must have been planned.
ancient-origins - 18/06/2019 - 21:25
... are to be found amongst the indigenous peoples of Melanesia? Which archetypes appear in ancient Andean creation ...
ancient-origins - 18/09/2021 - 04:20
... Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, and the nearby islands of Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia). Do You Have a Low Pain ...
Nathan Falde - 18/06/2021 - 22:48
... described ancestral sources in Siberia, Australo-Melanesia, and Southeast Asia, we show that northern coastal ...
Sahir - 10/05/2023 - 17:57
... on the skin. Tools consisted of simple ones like those in Melanesia and the complex, multi-toothed tools of Polynesia, ...
Mark Miller - 08/07/2016 - 00:39
... originally come from Taiwan by way of the Philippines and Melanesia. According to this view, Polynesians are mainly a ...
Caleb Strom - 26/08/2020 - 23:49
... southeastern Eurasia, as well as in Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia and possibly even Australia. They displayed a more ...
Andrew Collins - 07/03/2020 - 14:05
... in southern, eastern, and southeastern Asia, as well as in Melanesia, Oceania, and Australia—have genes displaying ... eastern part of the Eurasian continent, or beyond that in Melanesia, Oceania, and Australia. Some Denisovan-modern ...
Andrew Collins - 25/04/2020 - 13:59
... Island of Vanuatu in the south Pacific Ocean area known as Melanesia, well into the 20 th century, have also been found ... cranial feature, as did people on the island of Vanuatu in Melanesia, Malta in the Mediterranean, and the Olmec of ...
brien - 09/04/2013 - 16:59