tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post2472028671544806451..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Bacteria and the human peopling of the PacificDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-25509715831015231592009-10-14T14:26:19.180+03:002009-10-14T14:26:19.180+03:00I think that the authors of that other study mean ...I think that the authors of that other study mean that Philippines was only colonized in a second moment but not from Indonesia but by a local expansion of Filipino Austronesians. It's anyhow a linguistic tree, so it's not solid like engineering but a more or less insightful reconstruction. <br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negritos" rel="nofollow">Negritos</a> (Spanish for "Little Blacks") are a varied array of aboriginal people of peninsular Malaysia and island SE Asia, normally showing short height and some less important African-like (or rather Melanesian-like) traits like frizzy hair and the usual dark skin of tropical peoples with very deep roots. They don't seem specially related to Papuans or Melanesians but rather would seem other pockets of very ancient human colonization of the area.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-64620317226056883142009-10-14T05:46:03.736+03:002009-10-14T05:46:03.736+03:00Just out of curiousity as I'm not an academic ...Just out of curiousity as I'm not an academic nor scholarly, where does that leave that big blob called the Philippines? (Lots of yellow dots).<br /><br />I gathered that the one group of Austronesians, and one language branch migrated to the Philippines, from there branched out into south east (all the way to Madagascar) and west migration as far Easter island and New Zealand.<br /><br />As far as the dark skinned, frizzy haired Filipinos, I understand they are non-Austronesians but came from the same branch as Papuans, Melanesians and Australian aborigines.Sand, Wind & Starshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05546058592557072135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-34340066038185247812009-02-13T13:41:00.000+02:002009-02-13T13:41:00.000+02:00Hm... if node 2 is calibrated to c. 40,000 years a...Hm... if node 2 is calibrated to c. 40,000 years ago, how come did you place the Asia-Australia node at 32-33 Kyr? Shouldn't it be more like 45-50 Kyr?Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-48309762832019467292009-02-12T22:59:00.000+02:002009-02-12T22:59:00.000+02:00Fascinating, so where would the Austronesian nativ...Fascinating, so where would the Austronesian natives of Madagascar be on the chart?<BR/><BR/>Where are Europeans on the chart?<BR/><BR/>Why is the divergence of the hpSahul so late? I thought this area was supposed to be inhabited by 60K BP - or is this a confirmation that the Mungo Man find was correct, and earliest Australians were replaced by current Aborigines??pconroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312469574812832771noreply@blogger.com