ISBN:
0415399238
,
9780415399234
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXII, 456 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Edition:
Repr.
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the early history of Asia series 5
Series Statement:
RoutledgeCurzon studies in the early history of Asia
DDC:
306.095
Keywords:
Prehistoric peoples East Asia
;
Anthropological linguistics East Asia
;
Agriculture, Prehistoric East Asia
;
Domestication East Asia
;
Human beings Migrations
;
East Asia Antiquities
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Asien
;
Migration
;
Vorgeschichte
;
Archäologie
;
Linguistik
;
Genetik
;
Ostasien
;
Migration
;
Vorgeschichte
;
Archäologie
;
Linguistik
;
Genetik
Abstract:
Austronesian cultural origins : out of Taiwan, via the Batanes Islands, and onwards to western Polynesia / Peter Bellwood, Eusebio Dizon -- Evidence for a late onset of agriculture in the lower Yangzi Region and challenges for an archaeobotany of rice / Dorian Q Fuller, Ling Qin, Emma Harvey -- Livestock in ancient China : an archaeozoological perspective / Jing Yuan -- Stratification in the peopling of China : how far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology? / Roger Blench -- The expansion of setaria farmers in East Asia : a linguistic and archaeological model / Laurent Sagart -- The integrity of the Austronesian language family : from Taiwan to Oceania / Malcolm Ross -- The Formosan language family / Ilia Peiros -- Time perspective of Formosan aborigines / Paul Jen-Kuei Li -- To which language family does Chinese belong, or what's in a name? / George van Driem -- Altaic loans in old Chinese / Sergei Starostin (Ilia Peiros introduction) -- Comparing Japanese and Korean / Roy Andrew Miller -- The speed of language change, typology and history : languages, speakers and demography in north-east India / Francois Jacquesson -- The GM genetic polymorphism in Taiwan aborigines : new data revealing remarkable differentiation patterns / Alicia Sanchez-Mazas ... [et al.] -- Maternal lineages trace the origin of Polynesians back to Taiwan / Jean Trejaut ... [et al.] -- Mitochondrial DNA diversity of Tao-yami and Batan islanders : relationships with other Taiwanese aborigines / Jun Hun Loo, Jean Trejaut, Marie Lin -- A genetic perspective on the origins and dispersal of the Austronesians : -- Mitochondrial DNA variation from Madagascar to Easter Island / Erika Hagelberg, Murray Cox, Ian Frame -- A DNA signature for the expansion of irrigation in Bali? / J. Stephen Lansing ... [et al.] -- The effect of history and life-style on genetic structure of north Asian populations / Tatiana M. Karafet, Ludmila P. Osipova, Michael F. Hammer -- Y chromosome phylogeography in Asia : inferring haplogroup origins and polarity of haplogroup dispersion / Peter A. Underhill -- Understanding yak pastoralism in Central Asian highlands : mitochondrial DNA -- Evidence for origin, domestication and dispersal of the domestic yak / Xue-Bin Qi ... [et al.]
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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