Past human migrations in East Asia
Subtitle: matching archaeology, linguistics and genetics
By: edited by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sanchez-Mazas, Alicia, 1962-
Series: Routledge studies in the early history of Asia -- 5; Routledge studies in the early history of Asia -- 5.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780415399234; 9780203926789
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples -- East Asia; Anthropological linguistics -- East Asia; Agriculture, Prehistoric -- East Asia; Domestication -- East Asia; Human beings -- Migrations; East Asia -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Austronesian cultural origins : out of Taiwan, via the Batanes Islands, and onwards to western Polynesia / Peter Bellwood and Eusebio Dizon; title: Evidence for a late onset of agriculture in the lower Yangtze Region and challenges for an archaeobotany of rice / Dorian Q. Fuller, Ling Qin, and Emma Harvey; title: Livestock in ancient China : an archaeozoological perspective / Jing Yuan, Han Jian-Lin, and Roger Blench; title: Stratification in the peopling of China : how far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology? / Roger Blench; title: The expansion of setaria farmers in East Asia : a linguistic and archaeological model / Laurent Sagart; title: The integrity of the Austronesian language family : from Taiwan to Oceania / Malcolm Ross; title: The Formosan language family / Ilia Peiros; title: Time perspective of Formosan aborigines / Paul Jen-Kuei Li; title: To which language family does Chinese belong, or what's in a name? / George van Driem; title: Altaic loans in old Chinese / Sergei A. Starostin, with an introduction by Ilia Peiros; title: Comparing Japanese and Korean / Roy Andrew Miller; title: The speed of language change, typology and history : languages, speakers and demography in north-east India / François Jacquesson; title: The GM genetic polymorphism in Taiwan aborigines : new data revealing remarkable differentiation patterns / Alicia Sanchez-Mazas ... [et al.]; title: Maternal lineage ancestry of Taiwan aborigines shared with the Polynesians / Jean A. Trejaut ... [et al.]; title: Mitochondrial DNA diversity of Tao-Yami and Batan islanders : relationships with other Taiwanese aborigines / Jun Hun Loo ... [et al.]; title: A genetic perspective on the origins and dispersal of the Austronesians : mitochondrial DNA variation from Madagascar to Easter Island / Erika Hagelberg ... [et al.]; title: A DNA signature for the expansion of irrigation in Bali? / J. Stephen Lansing ... [et al.]; title: The effect of history and life-style on genetic structure of north Asian populations / Tatiana M. Karafet, Ludmila P. Osipova, and Michael F. Hammer; title: Y-chromosome phylogeography in Asia : inferring haplogroup origins and polarity of haplogroup dispersion / Peter A. Underhill; title: Understanding yak pastoralism in Central Asian highlands : mitochondrial DNA evidence for origin, domestication and dispersal of the domestic yak / Xue-Bin Qi ... [et al.].