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ReviewEvolutionary human sciences2020

Japan considered from the hypothesis of farmer/language spread.

Elisabeth de Boer, Melinda A Yang, Aileen Kawagoe, Gina L Barnes

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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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. High-coverage ancient genomes reveal divergent population histories and prehistoric starch-related genetic variation in Japan.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. 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

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Elisabeth de BoerFaculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Melinda A YangDepartment of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Aileen KawagoeDepartment of Social Studies, New International School of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
Gina L BarnesSOAS, University of London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5736-6837

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Formally, the Farming/Language Dispersal hypothesis as applied to Japan relates to the introduction of agriculture and spread of the Japanese language (between ca. 500 BC-AD 800). We review current data from genetics, archaeology, and linguistics in relation to this hypothesis. However, evidence bases for these disciplines are drawn from different periods. Genetic data have primarily been sampled from present-day Japanese and prehistoric Jōmon peoples (14,000-300 BC), preceding the introduction of rice agriculture. The best archaeological evidence for agriculture comes from western Japan during the Yayoi period (ca. 900 BC-AD 250), but little is known about northeastern Japan, which is a focal point here. And despite considerable hypothesizing about

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Japanese languageJōmon geneticslanguage/farming hypothesisMumun–Yayoi migrationsYayoi agriculture

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PMID37588377
PMCPMC10427481

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