Two competing theories about the human occupation of Southeast Asia have been debunked by groundbreaking analysis of ancient DNA extracted from 8,000-year-old skeletons. Two competing theories ...

Stone tools reveal Southeast Asia led the world in advanced seafaring 40,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of ...

Funan’s rulers often used the Sanskrit title varma (warrior).” It would not be incorrect to state that during the first millennium of the common era, Southeast Asia was a part of greater India ...

Little is known about the population history of modern humans in Southeast Asia. Scientists have made an "exciting" discovery of ancient human DNA that they say will allow them to piece together ...

When it comes to the ancient origins of Southeast Asia’s present-day population, two dominant theories have divided scientists for more than a century. One posits that the indigenous ...

Researchers discovered that present-day Southeast Asian populations derive ancestry from at least four ancient populations. DNA from human skeletal remains from Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines ...

The first whole-genome analyses of ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia reveal that there were at least three major waves of human migration into the region over the last 50,000 years. The ...

People who moved out of southern China cultivated big changes across ancient Southeast Asia, a new analysis of ancient human DNA finds. Chinese rice and millet farmers spread south into a region ...

A young woman who lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi as early as around 7,300 years ago had a surprisingly ancient East ... that the peopling of Southeast Asian islands was much more ...

The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago—millennia before Magellan ...

Research on the oldest surviving rock art of Southeast Asia shows the region's first people ... fundamental human behaviour began with our most ancient ancestors in Africa rather than Europe.