Demography, trade and state power: a tripartite model of medieval farming/language dispersals in the Ryukyu Islands.
| Autor: | Jarosz A; Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland., Robbeets M; Archaeolinguistics Research Group, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany., Fernandes R; Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.; School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.; Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic., Takamiya H; Research Center for the Pacific Islands, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-8580, Japan., Shinzato A; Research Center for Buried Cultural Properties, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan., Nakamura N; Research Center for Archaeology, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan., Shinoto M; Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Zentrum für Altertumswissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany., Hudson M; Archaeolinguistics Research Group, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.; Institut d'Asie Orientale, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Evolutionary human sciences [Evol Hum Sci] 2022 Jan 26; Vol. 4, pp. e4. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 26 (Print Publication: 2022). |
| DOI: | 10.1017/ehs.2022.1 |
| Abstrakt: | Hunter-gatherer occupations of small islands are rare in world prehistory and it is widely accepted that island settlement is facilitated by agriculture. The Ryukyu Islands contradict that understanding on two counts: not only did they have a long history of hunter-gatherer settlement, but they also have a very late date for the onset of agriculture, which only reached the archipelago between the eighth and thirteenth centuries AD. Here, we combine archaeology and linguistics to propose a tripartite model for the spread of agriculture and Ryukyuan languages to the Ryukyu Islands. Employing demographic growth, trade/piracy and the political influence of neighbouring states, this model provides a synthetic yet flexible understanding of farming/language dispersals in the Ryukyus within the complex historical background of medieval East Asia. Competing Interests: All authors declare no conflict of interest. (© The Author(s) 2022.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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