East Asian -- now that's so very informative. Are the discoverers of this find trying to tell us that the remains are of a person from the Orient, as in Chinese or Japanese or maybe Korean? It seems that these days the term "Asian" is being applied very loosely to anybody, to people from India to people from central Asia and the Orient to people from Siberia. All of these experts are always tiptoeing on eggshells if they have to make a definitive statement on the racial identification of human remains.
When speaking of the Indian Subcontinent they use the term South Asian.
UKian people are prone to refer to Indians, Pakistanis, Bengla Deshies and others from that immediate area as "Asian", but only when making police reports or in newspapers.