ISBN:
0203926781
,
0415399238
,
9780203926789
,
9780415399234
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxxii, 456 p)
,
ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the early history of Asia 5
Parallel Title:
Print version Past Human Migrations in East Asia : Matching Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics
DDC:
306.095
Keywords:
Agriculture, Prehistoric
;
Domestication
;
Anthropological linguistics
;
Prehistoric peoples
;
Human beings Migrations
;
East Asia Antiquities
Abstract:
Drawing upon the latest evidence in genetics, linguistics and archaeology, this exciting new book examines the history of the peopling of East Asia, and investigates the ways in which we can detect migration, and its different markers in these fields of enquiry
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Plates; Figures; Maps; Tables; Contributors; Obituaries; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Methodological issues: Linking genetic, linguistic and archaeological evidence; Part I: Archaeology and prehistory; 1 Austronesian cultural origins: Out of Taiwan, via the Batanes Islands, and onwards to Western Polynesia; 2 Evidence for a late onset of agriculture in the Lower Yangtze region and challenges for an archaeobotany of rice; 3 Livestock in ancient China: An archaeozoological perspective
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Stratification in the peopling of China: How far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology?5 The expansion of Setaria farmers in East Asia: A linguistic and archaeological model; Part II: Linguistics; 6 The integrity of the Austronesian language family: From Taiwan to Oceania; 7 The Formosan language family; 8 Time perspective of Formosan Aborigines; 9 To which language family does Chinese belong, or what's in a name?; 10 Altaic loans in Old Chinese; 11 Comparing Japanese and Korean
Description / Table of Contents:
12 The speed of language change, typology and history: Languages, speakers and demography in North-East IndiaPart III: Genetics; 13 The GM genetic polymorphism in Taiwan aborigines: New data revealing remarkable differentiation patterns; 14 Maternal lineage ancestry of Taiwan Aborigines shared with the Polynesians; 15 Mitochondrial DNA diversity of Tao-Yami and Batan islanders: Relationships with other Taiwanese aborigines; 16 A genetic perspective on the origins and dispersal of the Austronesians: Mitochondrial DNA variation from Madagascar to Easter Island
Description / Table of Contents:
17 A DNA signature for the expansion of irrigation in Bali?18 The effect of history and life-style on genetic structure of North Asian populations; 19 Y-chromosome phylogeography in Asia: Inferring haplogroup origins and polarity of haplogroup dispersion; 20 Understanding yak pastoralism in Central Asian Highlands: Mitochondrial DNA evidence for origin, domestication and dispersal of domestic yak; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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