02-23-2010, 09:18 PM
It's more of a "cultural studies" group called to support Oppenheimer's personal Sunda migration thesis. Either Witzel is ingratiating himself to Oppenheimer to influence the latter on Archaeogenetics. Or he has an 'advance to the rear' strategy to co-opt an emerging trend of deep-time/cross-cultural migrations of narratives. Otherwise, Witzel wouldn't be caught anywhere near something like the Sunda thesis.