Austronesian Societies: Reading Social Structure from the Genome

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Austronesian Societies Reading Social Structure
from the Genome

• Research Team Arizona
• Steve Lansing, Anthropology
• Michael Hammer, GATC
• Tatiana Karafet, GATC
• Joe Watkins, Mathematics

• Overall Objective
• Combine genetic and language modeling, data
  collection, and analysis with field work to shed
  insights into the relationships among human
  social behavioral factors that can influence
  patterns of relatedness.

• Methods
• Field work
• Bali, Sumba, Flores, Nias
• Laboratory genetics
• Language analysis
• Mathematical modeling