About Millets and Beans, Words and Genes

Overview

Journal Evol Hum Sci

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 Aug 17

PMID 37588388

Authors

Martine Robbeets

Chuan-Chao Wang

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Abstract

In this special collection, we address the origin and dispersal of the Transeurasian languages, i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Our key objective is to effectively synthesize linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence in a single approach, for which we use the term 'triangulation'. The 10 articles collected in this volume contribute to the question of whether and to what extent the early spread of Transeurasian languages was driven by agriculture in general, and by economic reliance on millet cultivation in particular.

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