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An Indian trader in ancient Bali?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

J.S. Lansing ,
A.J. Redd ,
T. M. Karafet ,
J. Watkins ,
I.W. Ardika ,
S.P.K. Surata ,
J.S. Schoenfelder ,
M. Campbell ,
A.M. Merriwether  and
M.F. Hammer
J.S. Lansing
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA (Email: j.lansing@u.arizona.edu) Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
A.J. Redd
Affiliation:
Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
T. M. Karafet
Affiliation:
Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
J. Watkins
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
I.W. Ardika
Affiliation:
Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Udayana, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
S.P.K. Surata
Affiliation:
Mahasaraswati College, Tabanan, Bali
J.S. Schoenfelder
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553, USA
M. Campbell
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
A.M. Merriwether
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
M.F. Hammer
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA (Email: j.lansing@u.arizona.edu) Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
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Abstract

DNA analysis of a tooth found with imported pottery in Bali offers a strong possibility of the presence of a trader of Indian extraction in the late first millennium BC.

Keywords

Iron Agefirst millennium ADIndiaIndonesiaBalitradeDNA
Type
Research
Information
Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 300 , June 2004 , pp. 287 - 293
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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