Ref ID:	23721
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Pietrusewsky, M.
Title:	The initial settlement of remote Oceania: the evidence from physical anthropology
Date:	2006
Source:	Austronesian diaspora and the ethnogenesis of people in Indonesian archipelago
Place of Publication:	Jakarta
Publisher:	Indonesian Institute of Sciences, LIPI Press
Notes:	Proceedings of the International Symposium
Abstract:	This review examines the evidence from physical anthropology for testing some of the current archaeological/linguistic models that attempt to explain the initial settlement of Remote Oceania. The evidence surveyed includes some of the earliest studies in anthropology that compiled data on the living (anthropometry, somatology, and classical genetic marker data) and the recently living (museum cranial collections) inhabitants of Oceania. Also examined in this review are the earliest human skeletal remains from the Pacific, some associated with the Lapita Cultural Complex, molecular genetic evidence including ancient DNA, and the evidence from multivariate analyses of cranial measurements.
Date Created:	7/2/2008
Editors:	Simanjuntak, T. Pojoh, I. H. E. Hisyam, M.
Page Start:	320
Page End:	347