Spriggs Matthew, Reich David
Vanuatu National Museum, Vanuatu Cultural Centre, P.O. Box 184, Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
World Archaeol. 2019;51(4):620-639. doi: 10.1080/00438243.2019.1733069. Epub 2020 Mar 17.
We present a case-study of a collaboration between archaeologists and geneticists that has helped settle a long-standing controversy and opened up new research questions for the Pacific region. The work provided insights into the history of human settlement and cultural changes in Vanuatu in the western Pacific, which in turn shed light on the origins of the cultural and linguistic diversity that characterizes the archipelago. Close interdisciplinary collaborations like this maximize the potential of ancient DNA to contribute to our understanding of the past and advance the scholarship of practitioners in both disciplines.
我们展示了一个考古学家与遗传学家合作的案例研究，该合作有助于解决一个长期存在的争议，并为太平洋地区开启了新的研究问题。这项工作为西太平洋瓦努阿图的人类定居历史和文化变迁提供了见解，进而揭示了构成该群岛特色的文化和语言多样性的起源。这样紧密的跨学科合作最大限度地发挥了古代DNA的潜力，有助于我们了解过去，并推动两个学科从业者的学术研究。
