Ethnolinguistic Prehistory: The Peopling of the World from the Perspective of Language, Genes and Material Culture
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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. The book provides detailed answers to the question of where we all came from. Contents Preface Figures Part 1. Historical Contexts in Which We Live Chapter 1. Prehistory and the Present 1. European Identities 2. A Tablet of Unusual Composition 3. A Pieterskerk Skull Migrates to Switzerland 4. Migration and Population Replacement in Prehistoric Europe Chapter 2. Evolving Scientific Views of Our Origins 1. Recent History Can Distort Our Perception of Prehistory 2. Indigenism in India 3. The Aryan Invasion and the Ancient Indian Fatherland 4. Colonial Expansion out of India and into India 5. The Zeal of Jihād and Reconquista Are Brought to the Subcontinent 6. The Continuing Saga of Colonialism Chapter 3. A Fascination with Phenotypical Diversity 1. The Rise of Race 2. Enchanted by Human Phenotypical Diversity 3. The Slippery Slope from Physical Anthropology to Racism 4. A Molecular Understanding of Heredity and the Fallacy of Race 5. The Tenacity of Obsolete Labels and the Rise of New Fictions 6. Endogamy and Exclusion vs. Conquest and Élite Dominance 7. Decolonising East Asian Prehistory Chapter 4. Chinoiserie Old and New 1. Spellbound by Language Typology 2. Racist Linguistic Typology vs. Linguistic Relativity 3. Ex Occidente Lux 4. The Creoloid Origins of Chinese 5. Asian Negrito Populations and the Birth of Lexicostatistics 6. Lexicostatistics under the Novel Guise of ‘Phylolinguistics’ Part 2. Episodes of Our Shared Prehistory Chapter 5. Beyond the Linguistic Event Horizon 1. The Rapacious Species 2. The Colonisation of Eurasia 3. Mixing with the Neighbours 4. Walking the Dogs Back to Africa 5. Long Lost Cousins 6. Eastward through the Clement Climatic Corridor 7. Yet Another Wave Washes through the Subcontinent 8. Human Paternal Lineages as Molecular Tracers 9. Paternal Starburst in the Subcontinent 10. Subsequent South Asian Y-Chromosomal Starbursts Chapter 6. Holocene Dispersals 1. From the Himalayan Heartland to Hyperborea 2. Austro-Tai Comprises Austronesian and Kradai 3. Older Layers of Peopling Shine through 4. Austroasiatic and para-Austroasiatic 5. Trans-Himalayan and Yangtzean Chapter 7. From India to Europe and Back 1. Dene-Kusunda and beyond Beringia 2. Burushaski and Indo-European 3. The Discovery of the Indus Civilisation 4. The Dravidians and the Indus Civilisation 5. Nihali and Vedda 6. Crossing the Pacific with Coconuts and Sweet Potatoes 7. The Discovery of America 8. Meanderings in the Pacific and Indian Oceans 9. Ancient Culture on the Beautiful Maldives 10. As Bassas de Chagas 11. Epilogue Bibliography Index
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