Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been discovered from the Karako-Kagi site
New insights into the chemistry of embalming show how globalized trade relationships had already become nearly 3,000 years ago
Genetic intermixing in Indonesia contributed to cultural “explosion” across the Pacific; a new study has been published on Nature Ecology and Evolution
Denisovans, a sister species of modern human, inhabited Laos by 164-131,000 years with important implications for populations out of Africa and Australia
New evidence also shows extra mixing between Papuans and one of the two Denisovan groups, suggesting that this group actually lived in New Guinea or its adjacent islands
