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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... diversity without languages being lost in spreads ' ( friction zones ) , then , since both are character- ized by linguistic diversity , how can one be distin- guished from the other by purely linguistic means ? Why would a starburst ...
... diversity without languages being lost in spreads ' ( friction zones ) , then , since both are character- ized by linguistic diversity , how can one be distin- guished from the other by purely linguistic means ? Why would a starburst ...
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... Diversity . Oxford : Oxford Uni- versity Press . Nichols , J. , 1990. Linguistic diversity and the first settle- ment of the New World . Language 66 , 475–521 . Nichols , J. , 1992. Linguistic Diversity in Time and Space . Chicago ( IL ) ...
... Diversity . Oxford : Oxford Uni- versity Press . Nichols , J. , 1990. Linguistic diversity and the first settle- ment of the New World . Language 66 , 475–521 . Nichols , J. , 1992. Linguistic Diversity in Time and Space . Chicago ( IL ) ...
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... diversity might be expected for a given ' spread zone ' . The tendency for commentators on putative dis- persals to hedge their bets on mechanisms leaves little for the geneticist to test . Thus , we are left with reading between the ...
... diversity might be expected for a given ' spread zone ' . The tendency for commentators on putative dis- persals to hedge their bets on mechanisms leaves little for the geneticist to test . Thus , we are left with reading between the ...
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Chapter | 8 |
1 | 12 |
the Genesis of Agricultural Societies | 17 |
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admixture Africa agriculture Ainu alleles American Journal Ammerman Anasazi Anthropology Asian Austronesian Austronesian languages Bandelt Bantu Barbujani Basin Basketmaker Bellwood Blust Cambridge Cavalli-Sforza cent Central chromosome colonization Colorado Plateau corn crops cultivation cultural dates demic diffusion demographic distribution diversity domestication Dravidian early East eastern Ehret Europe European expansion farmers foragers frequency gene flow geographical groups guages Guinea haplogroup haplotypes Holocene Human Genetics hunter-gatherers hypothesis India indigenous Indo-European languages Journal of Human language families Lapita lineages linguistic maize markers Mesoamerica Mesolithic migration millet mitochondrial mtDNA mutation Neolithic North northern Numic origins Pacific Palaeolithic patterns plant Polynesian population pottery Prehistory Proto Proto-Indo-European proto-language recent reconstructed region Renfrew rice Richards samples Semino settlement South southern Southwest speakers spread zone studies suggests Sykes Taiwan Tibeto-Burman tion Torroni transition Underhill University Press Uto-Aztecan Villeneuve-Saint-Germain western Y-chromosome Zvelebil