Rice Terraces and Water Temples of Bali:
A Proposal to create a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape
(This proposal would establish a World Heritage site in Bali to support and protect Balinese farmers, subaks, water temple networks, lakes, rivers and forests)
Nomination Dossier [ PDF ]
Management Plan for Adaptive Governance [ PDF ]
Skokomish Tribe: The Loss of a River
Supporting materials for the Tribe’s struggle to restore the Skokomish River.
A video, simulation model and article are available. [ Click ]
Hot news! Skokomish win partial victory on appeal; minimum river flow to be increased from 60 to 240 cfs.
Read the 2006 court decision! [ Video ]
Social dominance, infectious diseases and historical demography in the Indonesian archipelago
(These studies investigate processes that originate at the scale of village clusters, like kinship patterns, the spread of infectious diseases, and language speciation)
Some recent publications:
Lansing, J.S., M.P. Cox, S.S. Downey, B. Hallmark, T.M. Karafet, P. Norquest, J. Schoenfelder, H. Sudoyo, and M. F. Hammer. (2007). Coevolution of languages and genes on the island of Sumba, eastern Indonesia. PNAS 104(41):16022-16026.
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Lansing, J. Stephen, Sean S. Downey, Marco Jannsen, John Schoenfelder. (2009). A Robust Budding Model of Balinese Water Temple Networks. World Archaeology 41(1).
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Downey, S.S. B. Hallmark, M.P. Cox, P. Norquest, and J.S. Lansing. (20080. Feature-Sensitive Reconstruction of Language Relationships: Using the ALINE Distance in Historical Linguistics. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 15(4). Also working Paper of the Santa Fe Institute #07-08-021.
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Lansing, J. S., J.C. Watkins, B. Hallmark, M. P. Cox, T. M. Karafet, H. Sudoyo, & M. F. Hammer. (2008). Male dominance rarely skews the frequency distribution of Y chromosome haplotypes in human populations. PNAS 105(33):11645-50.
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Cox, M. P., A. J. Redd, T. M. Karafet, C. A. Ponder, J. S. Lansing, H. Sudoyo, & M. F. Hammer. (2007). A Polynesian motif on the Y chromosome: population structure in remote Oceania. Human Biology 79(5):525-535.
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Balinese Y-Chromosome Perspective on the Peopling of Indonesia: Genetic Contributions from Pre-Neolithic Hunter-Gatherers, Austronesian Farmers, and Indian Traders. Human Biology (2005) 77(1):93-113.
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Coral skeletal d15N reveals isotopic traces of an agricultural revolution. Marine Pollution Bulletin (2005) 50:931-944.
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