Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages
| Autor: | Chao Ning, Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama, John R. Bentley, Junzo Uchiyama, Kyou-Dong Ahn, Martine Robbeets, Joanna Dolińska, Marie Himmel, Ilona R. Bausch, Bingcong Deng, Ricardo J. Fernandes, Yinqiu Cui, Mitsugu Kugai, Mark J. Hudson, Fan Zhang, Ilya Gruntov, Geonyoung Kim, Noriko Seguchi, Tao Li, Matthew Conte, Hirotaka Tomita, Seongha Rhee, Deog-Im An, Olga Mazo, Ryosuke Kimura, Alexander Savelyev, Sofia Oskolskaya, Hiroki Oota, Patrick Roberts, Hajime Ishida, Ken-Yōjiro Yamano, Ken-ichi Shinoda, Takamune Kawashima, Linda Gilaizeau, Hiroto Takamiya, Rasmus Bjørn, Raffaela A. Bianco, Minoru Yoneda, Takehiro Sato, Jae-Hyun Kim, Remco R. Bouckaert |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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China
Vocabulary Evolution of language Human Migration media_common.quotation_subject Population Pastoralism Datasets as Topic Geographic Mapping Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Japan Bronze Age Humans East Asia education History Ancient Language 030304 developmental biology media_common 0303 health sciences education.field_of_study Korea Multidisciplinary business.industry Agriculture Linguistics Mongolia 15. Life on land Genetics Population Geography Archaeology Biological dispersal Ethnology Triangulation (psychology) business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Nature Research Square |
| Popis: | The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian population history1–3. A key problem is the relationship between linguistic dispersals, agricultural expansions and population movements4,5. Here we address this question by ‘triangulating’ genetics, archaeology and linguistics in a unified perspective. We report wide-ranging datasets from these disciplines, including a comprehensive Transeurasian agropastoral and basic vocabulary; an archaeological database of 255 Neolithic–Bronze Age sites from Northeast Asia; and a collection of ancient genomes from Korea, the Ryukyu islands and early cereal farmers in Japan, complementing previously published genomes from East Asia. Challenging the traditional ‘pastoralist hypothesis’6–8, we show that the common ancestry and primary dispersals of Transeurasian languages can be traced back to the first farmers moving across Northeast Asia from the Early Neolithic onwards, but that this shared heritage has been masked by extensive cultural interaction since the Bronze Age. As well as marking considerable progress in the three individual disciplines, by combining their converging evidence we show that the early spread of Transeurasian speakers was driven by agriculture. A ‘triangulation’ approach combining linguistics, archaeology and genetics suggests that the origin and spread of Transeurasian family of languages can be traced back to early millet farmers in Neolithic North East Asia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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