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List of plates List of figures List of maps List of tables List of contributors Obituaries Preface Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Methodological issues: linking genetic, linguistic and archaeological evidence Roger Blench, Malcolm Ross, Alicia Sanchez-Mazas PART I: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY 1. Austronesian cultural origins: Out of Taiwan, via the Batanes Islands, and onwards to Western Polynesia Peter Bellwood, Eusebio Dizon 2. Evidence for a late onset of agriculture in the Lower Yangzi region and challenges for an archaeobotany of rice Dorian Q Fuller, Ling Qin, Emma Harvey 3. Livestock in ancient China: an archaeozoological perspective Jing Yuan 4. Stratification in the peopling of China: how far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology? Roger Blench 5. The expansion of Setaria farmers in East Asia: a linguistic and archaeological model Laurent Sagart PART II: LINGUISTICS 6. The integrity of the Austronesian language family: from Taiwan to Oceania Malcolm Ross 7. The Formosan language family Ilia Peiros 8. Time Perspective of Formosan Aborigines Paul Jen-Kuei Li 9. To which language family does Chinese belong, or what?s in a name? George van Driem 10. Altaic loans in Old Chinese Sergei Starostin (Ilia Peiros introduction) 11. Comparing Japanese and Korean Roy Andrew Miller 12. The speed of language change, typology and history. Languages, speakers and demography in North-East India Francois Jacquesson PART III: GENETICS 13. The GM genetic polymorphism in Taiwan aborigines: new data revealing remarkable differentiation patterns Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Ludmila Osipova, Marie Lin, Jean-Michel Dugoujon, Laurent Sagart, Estella S. Poloni 14. Maternal lineages trace the origin of Polynesians back to Taiwan Jean Trejaut, Toomas Kivisild, Jun Hun Loo, Chien Liang Lee, Chun Lin He, Marie Lin 15. Mitochondrial DNA diversity of Tao-Yami and Batan islanders: relationships with other Taiwanese Aborigines Jun Hun Loo, Jean Trejaut, Marie Lin 16. A genetic perspective on the origins and dispersal of the Austronesians: mitochondrial DNA variation from Madagascar to Easter Island Erika Hagelberg, Murray Cox, Ian Frame 17. A DNA signature for the expansion of irrigation in Bali? J. Stephen Lansing, Tatiana M. Karafet, John Schoenfelder, Michael F. Hammer 18. The effect of history and life-style on genetic structure of North Asian populations Tatiana M. Karafet, Ludmila P. Osipova, Michael F. Hammer 19. Y chromosome phylogeography in Asia: inferring haplogroup origins and polarity of haplogroup dispersion Peter A. Underhill 20. Understanding yak pastoralism in Central Asian Highlands: mitochondrial DNA evidence for origin, domestication and dispersal of the domestic yak Xue-Bin Qi, Han Jianlin, Roger Blench, J. Edward O?Rege, Oliver Hanotte Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Prehistoric peoples -- East Asia.
Anthropological linguistics -- East Asia.
Agriculture, Prehistoric -- East Asia.
Domestication -- East Asia.
Human beings -- Migrations.
East Asia -- Antiquities.