Past Human Migrations in East Asia: Matching Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics

by Sanchez-Mazas; Alicia

• ISBN13: 9780415399234
• ISBN10: 0415399238
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the peopling of East Asia there exists widespread debate about the nature of evidence and the tools for correlating results from different disciplines. 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 inquiry. Results from different academic disciplines are compared and reinterpreted in the light of evidence from others to attempt to try and generate consensus on methodology. Taking a broad geographical focus, the book also draws attention to the roles of minority peoples a?? hitherto underplayed in accounts of the regiona??s prehistory a?? such as the Austronesian, Tai-Kadai and Altaic speakers, whose contribution to the regional culture is nowbecoming accepted. Past Human Migrations in East Asia presents a full picture of the latest research on the peopling of East Asia, and will be of interest to scholars of all disciplines working on the reconstruction of the peopling of East and North East Asia.

Table of Contents

List of plates	p. vii
List of figures	p. ix
List of maps	p. xii
List of tables	p. xiii
List of contributors	p. xv
Obituaries	p. xxiv
Preface	p. xxviii
Acknowledgements	p. xxx
List of abbreviations	p. xxxi
Introduction	p. 1
Methodological issues: linking genetic, linguistic and archaeological evidence	p. 3
Archaeology and prehistory	p. 21
Austronesian cultural origins: out of Taiwan, via the Batanes Islands, and onwards to Western Polynesia	p. 23
Evidence for a late onset of agriculture in the Lower Yangtze region and challenges for an archaeobotany of rice	p. 40
Livestock in ancient China: an archaeozoological perspective	p. 84
Stratification in the peopling of China: how far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology?	p. 105
The expansion of Setaria farmers in East Asia: a linguistic and archaeological model	p. 133
Linguistics	p. 159
The integrity of the Austronesian language family: From Taiwan to Oceania	p. 161
The Formosa language family	p. 182
Time perspective of Formosan Aborigines	p. 211
To which language family does Chinese belong, or what's in a name?	p. 219
Altaic loans in Old Chinese	p. 254
Comparing Japanese and Korean	p. 263
The speed of language change, typology and history: languages, speakers and demography in North-East India	p. 287
Genetics	p. 311
The GM genetic polymorphism in Taiwan aborigines: new data revealing remarkable differentiation patterns	p. 313
Maternal lineage ancestry of Taiwan Aborigines shared with the Polynesians	p. 334
Mitochondrial DNA diversity of Tao-Yami and Batan islanders: relationships with other Taiwanese aborigines	p. 349
A genetic perspective on the origins and dispersal of the Austronesians: mitochondrial DNA variation from Madagascar to Easter Island	p. 356
A DNA signature for the expansion of irrigation in Bali?	p. 376
The effect of history and life-style on genetic structure of North Asian populations	p. 395
Y-chromosome phylogeography in Asia: inferring haplogroup origins and polarity of haplogroup dispersion	p. 416
Understanding yak pastoralism in Central Asian Highlands: mitochondrial DNA evidence for origin, domestication and dispersal of domestic yak	p. 427
Index	p. 443
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