1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910996484003321

Autore

Chen Chung-Yu

Titolo

The Pre-Austronesian ‘Liangdao Man’ / / by Chung-yu Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

981-9789-27-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIX, 203 p. 45 illus., 41 illus. in color.)

Collana

The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation, , 2524-7476 ; ; 7

Disciplina

930.102804

Soggetti

Underwater archaeology

Prehistoric peoples

Archaeology - Philosophy

Environmental archaeology

Maritime Archaeology

Prehistoric Archaeology

Archaeology and Race

Environmental Archaeology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Matsu Archipelago in The Maritime Archaeology -- The Archaeology of Matsu Archipelago -- Physical Anthropology of the Two 'Liangdao Man' Individuals -- DNA Analysis of 'Liangdao Man' -- The origins of the 'Liangdao Man' Population and its East Asian Descendants -- 'Liangdao Man' from Physical and Cultural Anthropological Perspectives -- Results and Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, ethnology and ethnography, to explore the Austronesian link of ‘Liangdao Man,’ and the origins of Austronesian language groups. Due to their dating 2,300~1,500 years earlier than Austronesian-speaking peoples, these two individuals should be Pre-Austronesian or Proto-Austroasiatic. The Matsu archipelago is situated off Fuzhou City's estuary in Fujian Province. In 2011–2012, the author unearthed two human skeletons, ‘Liangdao Man 1’ and ‘Liangdao Man 2,’ aged 8,300 and 7,500 years, respectively, on Liangdao Island, one



of these islands. DNA analysis revealed that haplogroups E and R9 were identified, linking them to Austronesians of Taiwan aborigines’ maternal lineage.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911049194903321

Autore

Galili Ehud

Titolo

Atlit-Yam, a Submerged Pre-Pottery Neolithic C Site off the Carmel Coast, Israel : 9,000 Years Under the Sea / / edited by Ehud Galili, Liora Kolska Horwitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-032-03014-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 pages)

Collana

When the Land Meets the Sea, An ACUA and SHA Series, , 1869-6791

Disciplina

930.102804

Soggetti

Underwater archaeology

Prehistoric peoples

Maritime Archaeology

Prehistoric Archaeology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to Atlit-Yam, a submerged PPNC site off the Carmel coast, Israel -- The research area of the PPNC Atlit-Yam site -- Architecture: Structures and installations at the PPNC Atlit-Yam site -- The water wells of PPNC Atlit-Yam Site -- Burials and burial practices in PPNC Atlit-Yam -- Micro-geoarchaeological study of pyrotechnological products at PPNC Atlit-Yam -- Groundstone implements from the submerged PPNC site of Atlit-Yam -- The flint assemblages from PPNC Ghazalian Atlit-Yam -- Concluding remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the submerged Pre-Pottery Neolithic C settlement of Atlit-Yam (dated to the end of the tenth millennium to end of the ninth millennium BP). Located off the Carmel coast of Israel, it is the earliest and best preserved of 23 submerged prehistoric in situ sites known off the Israeli Mediterranean Sea coast. The site is a unique underwater archaeological locality due to the extensive investigations



that have been undertaken and which have exposed a large area comprising a range of architectural features, as well as the broad spectrum, richness and excellent preservation of the finds. The site offers insights into the processes of settlement inundation, which is relevant to sea-level rise nowadays, as well as the circumstances of survival and discovery of submerged sites worldwide. The chapters in this volume, the first of two, presents aspects of the Atlit-Yam site, including the site’s archaeological and physical setting and aspects its material culture (architecture, burials, groundstone and lithic artefacts). These data sets are used to reconstruct aspects of the technology and lifestyle of the community that inhabited it and highlights similarities to contemporaneous sites in the hinterland. The second volume, will deal with the economy, diet and health status of the inhabitants, the site’s chronology, and reconstructed paleoenvironment including the geological and geomorphological setting of the site assessed in relation to sea-level rise. This book fills gaps in our knowledge of the coastal Neolithic of the Southern Levant, by providing an in-depth review of the archaeological remains discovered at this unique, submerged site.