Ancient eastward migration traced in genes

From "Eurasian Bookshelf" on Facebook -  

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1202752154987561&set=a.527495192513264: A Story Written in DNA

The Development of the East Eurasian Phenotype

The East Eurasian phenotype — the set of physical traits common among many East Asian, Siberian, and some Southeast Asian populations — didn’t appear overnight. It developed over tens of thousands of years as ancient human populations adapted to diverse climates, diets, and environments across the vast lands east of the Eurasian Steppe.

Modern genetic studies suggest that many distinctive traits — including epicanthic folds, shovel-shaped incisors, thicker hair shafts, and skin tone variations — evolved as adaptive responses to cold climates, UV radiation, and dietary factors during the Upper Paleolithic (roughly 40,000–10,000 years ago).

These traits are believed to have crystallized among ancient hunter-gatherer populations in northern and eastern Asia, particularly in regions like Siberia, the Yellow River basin, and the Amur River valley. Later migrations spread this phenotype widely — into China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia — blending with local groups over millennia.

Genetics also shows fascinating connections between East Eurasians and Native Americans, who migrated across Beringia during the Ice Age, carrying parts of this shared ancestry into the New World.

This story is still unfolding, thanks to ancient DNA research — revealing how migration, climate, and time have shaped the diversity of human appearance across continents.

Indonesian trade with northern Australian aborigines

 

article: https://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/files/maritime-muslims.html

'Makassar people from the region of Sulawesi in Indonesia began visiting the coast of northern Australia sometime around the middle of the 18th century, first in the Kimberley region, and some decades later in Arnhem Land. They were men who collected and processed trepang (also known as sea cucumber), a marine invertebrate prized for its culinary value generally and for its supposed medicinal properties in Chinese markets. The term Makassan (or Macassan) is generally used to apply to all the trepangers who came to Australia.'
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassan_contact_with_Australia

NEWS: EARTHQUAKE WARNING - WESTERN PACIFIC REGION

A large earthquake deep below the Earth's surface will result in a cluster of quakes in the Pacific region, warns 'Dutchinse' (Michael Janitch) - see video below.

This may possibly be related to a recent solar storm, which some theorise interacts with the Earth's magnetic field to deliver a jolt to the iron core of the planet and translates into movements in the crust.
https://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com/2020/07/do-solar-storms-cause-earthquakes.html

TAIWAN: Pacific migration and the paperbark tree

'New evidence gleaned from the study of a common plant species lends further credence to the theory that Taiwan is the ancestral homeland of the Austronesian-speaking peoples,' says this 2015 article in Taiwan Today reporting on research that links Taiwan to a tree now found across the Pacific, the paper mulberry, used to make tapa cloth.



So on their skilled and dangerous voyages across the ocean, the Austronesian migrants must have taken not just food, tools and domestic animals but seeds and cuttings of the precious tree.

Photo taken from https://raskisimani.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/broussonetia-paper-mulberry.pdf

An interesting article on the tree, its history and uses can be found here:
https://raskisimani.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/broussonetia-paper-mulberry.pdf

MADAGASCAR: How (why) did Austronesians come to Madagascar?

The eastward migration - taking place around the year 500, it is thought - is a mystery:

'One can only assume that the island of Madagascar played an important role in trade, particularly that of spice trade (especially the cinnamon) and timber between Southeast Asia and Middle East, directly or through the African coast and Madagascar.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Madagascar#First_inhabitants_and_settlements_(500_BCE%E2%80%93700_CE)

Source: Wikipedia

PHILIPPINES: Prehistoric Hobbits in Luzon

Archaeological remains of a butchered rhino suggest that midget humanoid ancestors came to the Philippines far earlier than we thought:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/04/butchered-rhino-suggests-humans-were-in-the-philippines-700000-years-ago

NEWS: Will there be war in the Pacific, again?

One interpretation of North Korea's seemingly irrational belligerence is that Russia and China are behind it and the prize is control of the Pacific:

"To allow DPRK to get away with this provocation means we lose the Pacific and China will see this as a green light to run amok and seize whatever they want and intimidate the rest."

Read more here:

http://japan-forward.com/war-on-the-horizon-is-the-us-ready-to-meet-its-commitments/

The author, Michael Yon, has previously suggested that the renewed interest in abuse of women during the Japanese occupation of China in WWII is propaganda intended to mould public sentiment in advance of aggressive action by the Middle Kingdom:

https://japan-forward.com/the-hate-farm-china-is-planting-a-bitter-harvest/

AUSTRALIA: Ancient art in Arnhem Land

"Australia rock art - Mimis and Kangaroo, rock art, Oenpelli, Arnhem Land, Australia. Older painting before 7,000 BCE, Kangaroo probably post-contact. (Sayre, 2010, p. 975)" - https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/521502831831829461/

Bill Harney, looking at cave art in Arnhem Land in the 1940s:

Kangaroos, bandicoots, fish, reptiles - all are drawn nice and fat because he desires them that way.

Many of the paintings have been drawn as though seen through an X-ray, and beholding them we are amazed at the line details of the creature's internal organs. I questioned one of the artists who was working on a bark painting, and he described things to me.

"This," he explained, as he pointed out an object amidst the intestines, "is the fat." Then, with emphasis, "Proper fat this one." "That there," again on the anatomy, "is the heart. This red thing is the liver and the fine white lines are the backbone."

Each part was pointed out and it was correctly in place. Nothing strange about this, because these people had been cutting up and eating these things for years. They were professional anatomists when the drawings of the ancient white doctors would have been laughed at by an Oenpelli aborigine.

It was on those hills around Oenpelli that I saw the matchstick art that is so full of animation. My guide told me that it was the work of "Me-mies", the mythical bush elves who are "too clever" to be seen, and who draw these things, in the dark, from a paint made up of human blood and charcoal. Those "Me-mies" were indeed "too clever" - a few strokes on the rocky face and the picture was a group of natives fleeing from another.

I asked the native what he thought about them. He only shrugged his shoulders in reply, but shortly afterwards when we came upon a meaningless thing of coloured ochres and lines his voice vibrated with pride as he explained it in detail. The lines were the falling rain; the red streaks were the lightning thrown by a sky hero; the dots were the rain drops splashing on the ground below, which was another splash of ochre; the wriggly lines were the rivers in flood.

"Good picture?" I questioned him, as he stood expectantly by awaiting my decision. "Proper good," came his reply. "Plenty rain... full up tucker."

- "Life Among The Aborigines" by W. E. Harney, Robert Hale Limited (1957) - pp. 117-118
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Writing in 2013 about the estimated 100,000 sites of aboriginal Australian art, Susan Gough Henly says:

"In spite of extensive studies, it is still extremely difficult to pinpoint the age of rock art because most organic pigments cannot be carbon dated. A rare charcoal drawing on the Central Arnhem Land Plateau has been radiocarbon-dated to 28,000 years ago, making it the oldest painting in Australia and among the oldest in the world with reliable date evidence – but the engravings are probably much older."

- https://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/537962/Australian-Traveller-2013-Sue-Henly-rock-art1.pdf

What is thought to be the oldest cave painting in the world - from Sulawesi in Indonesia - has been dated to at least 39,000 years ago. It is a hand stencil (something also found at Oenpelli):

http://anthropology.net/2014/10/08/39000-year-old-cave-art-from-sulawesi-indonesia/