Examining the Farming/language Dispersal HypothesisPeter S. Bellwood, Colin Renfrew McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 2002 - 505 Seiten Linguistic diversity is one of the most puzzling and challenging features of humankind. Why are there some six thousand different languages spoken in the world today? Why are some, like Chinese or English, spoken by millions over vast territories, while others are restricted to just a few thousand speakers in a limited area? The farming/language dispersal hypothesis makes the radical and controversial proposal that the present-day distributions of many of the world's languages and language families can be traced back to the early developments and dispersals of farming from the several nuclear areas where animal and plant domestication emerged. For instance, the Indo-European and Austronesian language families may owe their current vast distributions to the spread of food plants and of farmers (speaking the relevant proto-language) following the Neolithic revolutions which took place in the Near East and in Eastern Asia respectively, thousands of years ago. In this challenging book, international experts in historical linguistics, prehistoric archaeology, molecular genetics and human ecology bring their specialisms to bear upon this intractable problem, using a range of interdisciplinary approaches. There are signs that a new synthesis between these fields may now be emerging. This path-breaking volume opens new perspectives and indicates some of the directions which future research is likely to follow. |
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... Natufian sedentary foragers The archaeology of late Palaeolithic foragers is rela- tively well known . Cultural units are identified on the basis of detailed lithic analyses combined with other attributes such as site size , site ...
... Natufian sedentary foragers The archaeology of late Palaeolithic foragers is rela- tively well known . Cultural units are identified on the basis of detailed lithic analyses combined with other attributes such as site size , site ...
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... Natufian homeland as known to date . A △ = Town / City = - SITE since at least the time of Ohalo II ( Colledge 115 The Natufian Culture and the Early Neolithic Map indicating the Natufian homeland as known to date.
... Natufian homeland as known to date . A △ = Town / City = - SITE since at least the time of Ohalo II ( Colledge 115 The Natufian Culture and the Early Neolithic Map indicating the Natufian homeland as known to date.
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... Natufian The climatic crisis of the Younger Dryas is recorded in deep - sea , pollen and ice cores ( c . 10,900 to 9600 cal . BC ) . Complex hunter - gatherer societies such as the Early Natufian , which lasted for almost two mil ...
... Natufian The climatic crisis of the Younger Dryas is recorded in deep - sea , pollen and ice cores ( c . 10,900 to 9600 cal . BC ) . Complex hunter - gatherer societies such as the Early Natufian , which lasted for almost two mil ...
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the Genesis of Agricultural Societies | 17 |
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