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The peopling of East Asia : putting together archaeology, linguistics and genetics

Recent findings in the fields of East Asian archaeology, linguistics and genetics are collected together here, making this an ideal reference tool for scholars in all disciplines working on the reconstruction of the East Asian past.
Print Book, English, 2005
RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2005
Aufsatzsammlung Ostasien Bevölkerung Bevölkerungsstruktur Geschichte
XXIII, 323 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten ; 24 cm
9780415322423, 0415322421
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Inhalt: Introduction / Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas
1. Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis in the East Asian Context / P. Bellwood
2. From the mountains to the valleys: Understanding ethnolinguistic geography in southeast Asia / Roger Blench
Appendix to 2 / Roger Blench
3. The Origin and Dispersal of Agriculture and Human Diaspora in East Asia / T. Lu
4. Recent discoveries at a tapenkeng culture site in Taiwan: Implications for the problem of Austronesian origins / C.H. Tsang
5. The Contribution of Linguistic Palaeontology to the Homeland of Austroasiatic / G. Diffloth
6. Tibeto-Burman vs. Indo-Chinese: Implications for population geneticists, archaeologists and prehistorians / G. Van Driem
7. Kra-dai and Austronesian: Notes on phonological correspondences and vocabulary distribution / W. Ostapirat
8. The Current Status of Austric: A review and evaluation of the lexical and morphosyntactic evidence / L. Reid
Appendix to 8 / L. Reid
9. Sino-tibetan-austronesian: An updated and improved argument / Laurent Sagart
10. Tai-kadai as a subgroup of Austronesian / Laurent Sagart
11. Proto-east Asian and the origin and dispersal of the languages of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific / S. Starosta
12. The physical anthropology of the Pacific, East Asia, and Southeast Asia: a multivariate craniometric analysis / M. Pietrusewsky
Appendix to 12 / M. Pietrusewsky
13. Genetic diversity of Taiwan's indigenous peoples: Possible relationship with insular Southeast Asia / Marie Lin, Chen-Chung Chu, Richard E. Broadberry, Lung-Chih Yu, Jun-Hun Loo and Jean A. Trejaut Inhalt: 14. Genetic analysis of minority populations in China and its implications for multi-regional evolution / Chu J.Y
15. Comparing linguistic and genetic relationships among East Asian populations: a study of the RH and GM polymorphisms / Estella S. Poloni, Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Guillaume Jacques and Laurent Sagart
16. Hla genetic diversity and linguistic variation in East Asia / Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Estella S. Poloni, Guillaume Jacques and Laurent Sagart
17. A synopsis of extant y chromosome diversity in East Asia and Oceania / Peter A. Underhill
Appendix to 17 / Peter A. Underhill
Volume arose out of a workshop on the phylogenie of East Asian languages in Perigeux, France, 29-31 August 2001