The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics

by Blench, Roger; Sagart, Laurent; Sanchez-Mazas, Alicia

• ISBN13: 9780203343685
• ISBN10: 0203343689
• Copyright: 2005-03-20
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Laurent Sagart

Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis in the East Asian Context

From the mountains to the valleys: Understanding ethnolinguistic geography in southeast Asia Roger Blench Appendix to 2

The Origin and Dispersal of Agriculture and Human Diaspora in East Asia

Recent discoveries at a tapenkeng culture site in Taiwan: Implications for the problem of Austronesian origins

The Contribution of Linguistic Palaeontology to the Homeland of Austroasiatic

Tibeto-Burman vs. Indo-Chinese: Implications for population geneticists, archaeologists and prehistorians

Kra-dai and Austronesian: Notes on phonological correspondences and vocabulary distribution

The Current Status of Austric: A review and evaluation of the lexical and morphosyntactic evidence

Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian: An updated and improved argument

Tai-kadai as a subgroup of Austronesian

Proto-east Asian and the origin and dispersal of the languages of East and Southeast Asia and the

The physical anthropology of the Pacific, East Asia, and Southeast Asia: a multivariate craniometric analysis

Genetic diversity of Taiwan's indigenous peoples: Possible relationship with insular Southeast Asia Marie Lin

Genetic analysis of minority populations in China and its implications for multi-regional evolution

Comparing linguistic and genetic relationships among East Asian populations: a study of the RH and GM polymorphisms

Hla genetic diversity and linguistic variation in East Asia Alicia Sanchez-Mazas

A synopsis of extant y chromosome diversity in East Asia and Oceania Peter A. Underhill Appendix to 17

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