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Ethnolinguistic prehistory : the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Driem, George van, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Colección:Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the Greater Himalayan region, volume 26
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.