Category Archives: Mainland Southeast Asia

When STRUCTURE-style bar plots first emerged using the HGDP Cambodian samples, there were often strange residual components with affinities to South Asians. When Treemix was developed there were strange edges between South Asians and Cambodians. In discussions with Joe Pickrell, the author of Treemix, we both adduced this must be due to deep affinities to […]

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Pop     N R1a1 Cambodian     125 7% Balinese     551 2% Southern Han     166 0% Northern Han     65 0% Miao     25 0% Hui     25 17% Sala     43 21% Bo’an     44 25% Dongxiang     47 32% Black, Michael L., […]

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The lower Mekong region is a fascinating zone from the perspective of human geography and ethnography. Divided between Cambodia and Vietnam, until the past few centuries it was, in fact, part of the broader Khmer world, and historically part of successive Cambodian polities. Vietnam, as we know it, emerged in the Red River valley far to […]

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As I am currently reading Victor Lieberman’s magisterial Strange Parallels: Volume 2. So I was very interested in a new paper from BMC Genetics, Genetic structure of the Mon-Khmer speaking groups and their affinity to the neighbouring Tai populat…

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