Past human migrations in East Asia : matching archaeology, linguistics and genetics / edited by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas [and others].
| Other author | Sanchez-Mazas, Alicia, 1962- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. |
| Description | xxxii, 456 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in the early history of Asia ; 5 Routledge studies in the early history of Asia 5. ^A719312 |
| Contents | Austronesian cultural origins : out of Taiwan, via the Batanes Islands, and onwards to western Polynesia / Peter Bellwood and Eusebio Dizon -- 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 -- Livestock in ancient China : an archaeozoological perspective / Jing Yuan, Han Jian-Lin, and Roger Blench -- Stratification in the peopling of China : how far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology? / Roger Blench -- The expansion of setaria farmers in East Asia : a linguistic and archaeological model / Laurent Sagart -- The integrity of the Austronesian language family : from Taiwan to Oceania / Malcolm Ross -- The Formosan language family / Ilia Peiros -- Time perspective of Formosan aborigines / Paul Jen-Kuei Li -- To which language family does Chinese belong, or what's in a name? / George van Driem -- Altaic loans in old Chinese / Sergei A. Starostin, with an introduction by Ilia Peiros -- Comparing Japanese and Korean / Roy Andrew Miller -- The speed of language change, typology and history : languages, speakers and demography in north-east India / François Jacquesson -- The GM genetic polymorphism in Taiwan aborigines : new data revealing remarkable differentiation patterns / Alicia Sanchez-Mazas ... [et al.] -- Maternal lineage ancestry of Taiwan aborigines shared with the Polynesians / Jean A. Trejaut ... [et al.] -- Mitochondrial DNA diversity of Tao-Yami and Batan islanders : relationships with other Taiwanese aborigines / Jun Hun Loo ... [et al.] -- A genetic perspective on the origins and dispersal of the Austronesians : mitochondrial DNA variation from Madagascar to Easter Island / Erika Hagelberg ... [et al.] -- A DNA signature for the expansion of irrigation in Bali? / J. Stephen Lansing ... [et al.] -- The effect of history and life-style on genetic structure of north Asian populations / Tatiana M. Karafet, Ludmila P. Osipova, and Michael F. Hammer -- Y-chromosome phylogeography in Asia : inferring haplogroup origins and polarity of haplogroup dispersion / Peter A. Underhill -- Understanding yak pastoralism in Central Asian highlands : mitochondrial DNA evidence for origin, domestication and dispersal of the domestic yak / Xue-Bin Qi ... [et al.]. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007047628 |
| ISBN | 9780415399234 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415399238 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780203926789 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0203926781 (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | GN 855.E27 P37 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |