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Title:
Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions
Authors:
Diamond, Jared; Bellwood, Peter
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524, USA.), AB(School of Archaeology and Anthropology and Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, 0200, Australia. )
Publication:
Science, Volume 300, Issue 5619, pp. 597-603 (2003). (Sci Homepage)
Publication Date:
04/2003
Category:
ANTHRO
Origin:
SCIENCE
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 2003: Science
DOI:
10.1126/science.1078208
Bibliographic Code:
2003Sci...300..597D

Abstract

The largest movements and replacements of human populations since the end of the Ice Ages resulted from the geographically uneven rise of food production around the world. The first farming societies thereby gained great advantages over hunter-gatherer societies. But most of those resulting shifts of populations and languages are complex, controversial, or both. We discuss the main complications and specific examples involving 15 language families. Further progress will depend on interdisciplinary research that combines archaeology, crop and livestock studies, physical anthropology, genetics, and linguistics.
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