Author : Peter S. Bellwood
Publisher : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
A radical new theory of how languages were dispersed around the globe is debated by experts in historical linguistics, prehistoric archaeology, molecular genetics and human ecology.
Author : Peter Bellwood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0631205659
First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan
Author : Peter White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000115518
This volume, the first in the One World Archaeology series, is a compendium of key papers by leaders in the field of the emergence of agriculture in different parts of the world. Each is supplemented by a review of developments in the field since its publication. Contributions cover the better known regions of early and independent agricultural development, such as Southwest Asia and the Americas, as well as lesser known locales, such as Africa and New Guinea. Other contributions examine the dispersal of agricultural practices into a region, such as India and Japan, and how introduced crops became incorporated into pre-existing forms of food production. This reader is intended for students of the archaeology of agriculture, and will also prove a valuable and handy resource for scholars and researchers in the area.
Author : Martine Robbeets
Publisher :
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198804628
This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the Transeurasian languages. It offers detailed structural overviews of individual languages, as well as comparative perspectives and insights from typology, genetics, and anthropology. The book will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics.
Author : Tom Güldemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107003687
Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.
Author : Martine Robbeets
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027264643
Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of agriculture by their early speakers. In this volume, their proposal is reassessed by linguists, investigating to what extent the economic dependence on plant cultivation really impacted language spread in various parts of the world. Special attention is paid to "tricky" language families such as Eskimo-Aleut, Quechua, Aymara, Bantu, Indo-European, Transeurasian, Turkic, Japano-Koreanic, Hmong-Mien and Trans-New Guinea, that cannot unequivocally be regarded as instances of Farming/Language Dispersal, even if subsistence played a role in their expansion.
Author : Jacques Cauvin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521651356
A study of social and economic transformations in the Near East during Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition, first published in 2000.
Author : Alicia Sanchez-Mazas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 113414962X
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 – hitherto underplayed in accounts of the region’s prehistory – such as the Austronesian, Tai-Kadai and Altaic speakers, whose contribution to the regional culture is now becoming 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.
Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317743237
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: historical perspectives methods and models language change interfaces regional summaries Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area. Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315794013.ch28
Author : Roger Blench
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2005-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 113435312X
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.
