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The Peopling of East Asia Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics
Edited by Laurent Sagart, Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientique, France, Roger Blench, Overseas Development Institute, UK and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, University of Geneva, Switzerland

RoutledgeCurzon
December 2004: 234x156: 392pp: illus. 25 line drawings, 12 maps, 1 plate section and 84 tables
Hb: 0-415-32242-1: £75.00

Market: East Asian Studies and Archaeology

Published by: Taylor and Francis Group

Synopsis:
One of the most dynamic research areas in the prehistory of East Asian regions is the synthesis of the findings of archaeology, linguistics and genetics. Several countries have only recently opened to field research and highly active local groups have made possible a raft of collaborative studies which would have been impossible even a decade ago. This book presents an overview of the most recent findings in all these fields. The book should be of great interest to scholars of all disciplines working on the reconstruction of the East Asian past.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis in the East Asian Context
2. From the mountains to the valleys: Understanding ethnolinguistic geography in southeast Asia
3. The Origin and Dispersal of Agriculture and Human Diaspora in East Asia
4. Recent discoveries at a tapenkeng culture site in Taiwan: Implications for the problem of Austronesian origins
5. The Contribution of Linguistic Palaeontology to the Homeland of Austroasiatic
6. Tibeto-Burman vs. Indo-Chinese: Implications for population geneticists, archaeologists and prehistorians
7. Kra-dai and Austronesian: Notes on phonological correspondences and vocabulary distribution
8. The Current Status of Austric: A review and evaluation of the lexical and morphosyntactic evidence
9. Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian: An updated and improved argument
10. Tai-kadai as a subgroup of Austronesian
11. Proto-east Asian and the origin and dispersal of the languages of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific
12. The physical anthropology of the Pacific, East Asia, and Southeast Asia: a multivariate craniometric analysis
13. Genetic diversity of Taiwan's indigenous peoples: Possible relationship with insular Southeast Asia
14. Genetic analysis of minority populations in China and its implications for multi-regional evolution
15. Comparing linguistic and genetic relationships among East Asian populations: a study of the RH and GM polymorphisms
16. Hla genetic diversity and linguistic variation in East Asia
17. A synopsis of extant y chromosome diversity in East Asia and Oceania