Revisiting ancient DNA insights into the human history of the Pacific Islands

Spriggs, Matthew; Valentin, Frédérique; Bedford, Stuart; Pinhasi, Ron; Skoglund, Pontus; Reich, David; Lipson, Mark

doi:10.1002/arco.5180

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“…Genomic studies also suggest that there was admixture between East Asian and Near Oceania ancestry. However, it is still debated where the admixture occurred: at the northern coastal region of the New Guinea Islands while East Asian ancestry moved toward Remote Oceania (9); or in Remote Oceania, where Near Oceania ancestry later arrived and mixed with East Asian ancestry (15).…”

Section: Historical Peopling Of the Pacificmentioning

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Health Challenges of the Pacific Region: Insights From History, Geography, Social Determinants, Genetics, and the Microbiome

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The Pacific region, also referred to as Oceania, is a geographically widespread region populated by people of diverse cultures and ethnicities. Indigenous people in the region (Melanesians, Polynesians, Micronesians, Papuans, and Indigenous Australians) are over-represented on national, regional, and global scales for the burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases. Although social and environmental factors such as poverty, education, and access to health-care are assumed to be major drivers of this disease burden, there is also developing evidence that genetic and microbiotic factors should also be considered. To date, studies investigating genetic and/or microbiotic links with vulnerabilities to infectious and non-communicable diseases have mostly focused on populations in Europe, Asia, and USA, with uncertain associations for other populations such as indigenous communities in Oceania. Recent developments in personalized medicine have shown that identifying ethnicity-linked genetic vulnerabilities can be important for medical management. Although our understanding of the impacts of the gut microbiome on health is still in the early stages, it is likely that equivalent vulnerabilities will also be identified through the interaction between gut microbiome composition and function with pathogens and the host immune system. As rapid economic, dietary, and cultural changes occur throughout Oceania it becomes increasingly important that further research is conducted within indigenous populations to address the double burden of high rates of infectious diseases and rapidly rising non-communicable diseases so that comprehensive development goals can be planned. In this article, we review the current knowledge on the impact of nutrition, genetics, and the gut microbiome on infectious diseases in indigenous people of the Pacific region.

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Section: Historical Peopling Of the Pacificmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health Challenges of the Pacific Region: Insights From History, Geography, Social Determinants, Genetics, and the Microbiome

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“…Another recently developed technique not discussed in the chapters in this section, ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis, is increasingly being used to draw conclusions about the ancestry and past migrations of Pacific Islanders. While promising, it is not without controversy (Bedford et al 2018;Lipson et al 2020;Posth et al , 2019Spriggs et al 2019;Spriggs and Reich 2020). Generally speaking, it is important to bear in mind that even the most sophisticated scientific techniques are not infallible, and that archaeology in the Pacific, as elsewhere, is far from being an apolitical pursuit .…”

Section: Looking Beyondmentioning

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Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania

Spriggs

2022

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Since 2009, her interest in cosmologies and knowledge systems has led her to collaborate with the Vatican Museums' Anima Mundi -Peoples, Arts and Cultures Museum. She culturally reconnected their Indigenous collections with communities around the world, bringing the Indigenous voice into the museum space for exhibitions and catalogues. She edited Australia (2017), the catalogue dedicated to the Vatican's collection, and with Fr Nicola Mapelli PhD published Oceania (2022), the fourth catalogue in the series, the others being Ethnos (2012) and The Americas (2014).

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“…While some measure of continuity between founding Lapita populations and later societies in both Near and Remote Oceania can be established (Kirch 2017: 106), documented transformations will continue to stimulate debate on the significance of the changes observed at archaeological sites yielding later pottery styles (Leclerc 2019), paralleling similar debates among historical linguists and biological anthropologists, and not limited to the post-Lapita period (Geraghty 2002(Geraghty , 2004Harris et al 2020;Sheppard 2019;Spriggs et al 2019).…”

Section: Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%