Kim Dung Nguyen

TL;DR: Southeast Asian nephrite (jade) artifacts, many archeologically excavated, dating from 3000 B.C. through the first millennium A.D. have revealed the existence of one of the most extensive sea-based trade networks of a single geological material in the prehistoric world.

TL;DR: Clear dichotomization between the two layers implies a temporally deep divergence of distinct migration routes for AMH through both southern and northern Eurasia.

TL;DR: The South China Sea has been one of the world's busiest zones of cross-regional commerce, at least since the Iron Age if not much earlier as mentioned in this paper, where cultural practices and histories have been shared across remotely separated areas but not necessarily among nearest-neighbor communities.

TL;DR: This communication documents one of the earliest verifiable cases of human paralysis associated with severe spinal pathology, described for a young adult male from a Southeast Asian Neolithic community, which would have rendered him completely dependent on others for survival.