Ethnolinguistic prehistory : : the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture / / by George van Driem.
"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...
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| Superior document: | Languages of the Greater Himalayan region ; Volume 26 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Languages of the greater Himalayan region ;
Volume 26. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (414 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Historical contexts in which we live. Prehistory and the present : crossing national and mythical boundaries
- Evolving scientific views of our origins : as opposed to political projections upon the prehistoric past
- A fascination with phenotypical diversity : the manifold ways in which we humans can look beautiful
- Chinoiserie old and new : language typology with and without racial prejudice
- Episodes of our shared prehistory. Beyond the linguistic Event Horizon : the sub-Himalayan hill tracts and adjacent plains serve as a conduit
- Holocene dispersals : genetic correlates of major linguistic phyla in Eastern Eurasia
- From India to Europe and back : from the Holocene to the beginnings of recorded history.