Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of LanguagesPeter Forster, Colin Renfrew McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2006 - 198 Seiten Evolutionary ('phylogenetic') trees were first used to infer lost histories nearly two centuries ago by manuscript scholars reconstructing original texts. Today, computer methods are enabling phylogenetic trees to transform genetics, historical linguistics and even the archaeological study of artefact shapes and styles. But which phylogenetic methods are best suited to retracing the evolution of languages? And which types of language data are most informative about deep prehistory? In this book, leading specialists engage with these key questions. Essential reading for linguists, geneticists and archaeologists, these studies demonstrate how phylogenetic tools are illuminating previously intractable questions about language prehistory. This innovative volume arose from a conference of linguists, geneticists and archaeologists held at Cambridge in 2004. |
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... agriculture in the Indo - Pacific region : gradualism and diffusion or revolution and colonization ?, in The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia , ed . D.R. Har- ris . London : UCL Press , 465–98 . Boucher , Y ...
... agriculture in the Indo - Pacific region : gradualism and diffusion or revolution and colonization ?, in The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia , ed . D.R. Har- ris . London : UCL Press , 465–98 . Boucher , Y ...
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... agriculture — a scenario that is also thought to have occurred across the Pacific ( Bellwood 1991 ; 1994 ) , Southeast Asia ( Glover & Higham 1996 ) and sub - Saharan Africa ( Holden 2002 ) . On the basis of linguistic evidence ...
... agriculture — a scenario that is also thought to have occurred across the Pacific ( Bellwood 1991 ; 1994 ) , Southeast Asia ( Glover & Higham 1996 ) and sub - Saharan Africa ( Holden 2002 ) . On the basis of linguistic evidence ...
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... agriculture from Anatolia . The branching pattern and dates of internal nodes are broadly consistent with archaeological evidence indicating that between the tenth and sixth millennia BP a culture based on cereal cultivation and animal ...
... agriculture from Anatolia . The branching pattern and dates of internal nodes are broadly consistent with archaeological evidence indicating that between the tenth and sixth millennia BP a culture based on cereal cultivation and animal ...
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CLARE J HOLDEN RUSSELL D GRAY | 19 |
Bantu Classification Bantu Trees and Phylogenetic Methods | 43 |
Chapter 6 | 67 |
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