Ethnolinguistic Prehistory: The Peopling of the World from the Perspective of Language, Genes and Material Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004448360)

This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture, presenting a view from the Himalayas. The phylogeny of language families, the chronology of branching of linguistic family trees and the historical and modern geographical distribution of language communities inform us about the spread of languages and linguistic phyla. The global distribution and the chronology of spread of Y chromosomal haplogroups appears closely correlated with the spread of language families. New findings on ancient DNA have greatly enhanced our understanding of the prehistory and provenance of our biological ancestors. The archaeological study of past material cultures provides yet a third independent window onto the complex prehistory of our species.

Author: George L. Van Driem
ISBN-10: 9004448365
ISBN-13: 9789004448360
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/22/2021
Pages: 414
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d