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ReviewEvolutionary human sciences2020

Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology of textile production.

Sarah Nelson, Irina Zhushchikhovskaya, Tao Li, Mark Hudson, Martine Robbeets

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Review in Evolutionary human sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. About millets and beans, words and genes.Evolutionary human sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Sarah NelsonDepartment of Anthropology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
Irina ZhushchikhovskayaLaboratory of Medieval Archaeology, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of Peoples of Far East, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia.
Tao LiEurasia3angle Research group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
Mark HudsonEurasia3angle Research group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9483-9303
Martine RobbeetsEurasia3angle Research group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2860-0230
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History · DEInstitute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of Far-East · RUUniversity of Denver · USWuhan University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Archaeolinguistics, a field which combines language reconstruction and archaeology as a source of information on human prehistory, has much to offer to deepen our understanding of the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Northeast Asia. So far, integrated comparative analyses of words and tools for textile production are completely lacking for the Northeast Asian Neolithic and Bronze Age. To remedy this situation, here we integrate linguistic and archaeological evidence of textile production, with the aim of shedding light on ancient population movements in Northeast China, the Russian Far East, Korea and Japan. We show that the transition to more sophisticated textile technology in these regions can be associated not only with the adoption of millet agriculture but also with the spread of the languages of the so-called 'Transeurasian' family. In this way, our research provides indirect support for the Language/Farming Dispersal Hypothesis, which posits that language expansion from the Neolithic onwards was often associated with agricultural colonization.

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ArchaeolinguisticsLanguage/Farming Dispersal HypothesisNortheast Asiatextile technologyTranseurasian language family

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