The peopling of East Asia : putting together archaeology, linguistics and genetics / / Edited by Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457624803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-134-35312-X; 1-280-17488-9; 9786610174881; 0-203-34368-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BlenchR; SagartLaurent; Sanchez-MazasAlicia <1962->
• Disciplina: 950/.1
• Soggetti: Archaeology - East Asia; Linguistics - East Asia; Genetics - East Asia; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PLATES; FIGURES; MAPS; TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 EXAMINING THE FARMING/ LANGUAGE DISPERSAL HYPOTHESIS IN THE EAST ASIAN CONTEXT; 2 FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE VALLEYS; 3 THE ORIGIN AND DISPERSAL OF AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN DIASPORA IN EAST ASIA; 4 RECENT DISCOVERIES AT THE TAPENKENG CULTURE SITES IN TAIWAN; 5 THE CONTRIBUTION OF LINGUISTIC PALAEONTOLOGY TO THE HOMELAND OF AUSTRO-ASIATIC; 6 TIBETO-BURMAN VS INDO-CHINESE; 7 KRA-DAI AND AUSTRONESIAN; 8 THE CURRENT STATUS OF AUSTRIC; 9 SINO-TIBETAN-AUSTRONESIAN; 10 TAI-KADAI AS A SUBGROUP OF AUSTRONESIAN11 PROTO-EAST ASIAN AND THE ORIGIN AND DISPERSAL OF THE LANGUAGES OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC; 12 THE PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE PACIFIC, EAST ASIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA; 13 ; GENETIC DIVERSITY OF TAIWAN'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; 14 GENETIC ANALYSIS OF MINORITY POPULATIONS IN CHINA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MULTIREGIONAL EVOLUTION; 15 COMPARING LINGUISTIC AND GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG EAST ASIAN POPULATIONS; 16 HLA GENETIC DIVERSITY AND LINGUISTIC VARIATION IN EAST ASIA; 17 A SYNOPSIS OF EXTANT Y CHROMOSOME DIVERSITY IN EAST ASIA AND OCEANIA; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the most dynamic research areas in the prehistory of East Asian regions is the synthesis of the findings of archaeology, linguistics and genetics. Several countries have only recently opened to field research and highly active local groups have made possible a raft of collaborative studies that would have been impossible even a decade ago. This book presents an overview of the most recent findings in all these fields. It will be of great interest to scholars of all disciplines working on the reconstruction of the East Asian past.