About millets and beans, words and genes

Robbeets, Martine; Wang, Chuan‐Chao

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“…crops or ceramics) and human groups (cf. [ 14 , 53 , 54 ]), the plausibility of particular reconstruction hypotheses significantly increased or decreased. Larger amounts of extralinguistic evidence can now be taken into account to calibrate more conventional (e.g.…”

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Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages

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We study the correlation between phylogenetic and geographic distances for the languages of the Andic branch of the East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language family. For several alternative phylogenies, we find that geographic distances correlate with linguistic divergence. Notably, qualitative classifications show a better fit with geography than cognacy-based phylogenies. We interpret this result as follows: The better fit may be due to implicit geographic bias in qualitative classifications. We conclude that approaches to classification other than those based on cognacy run a risk to implicitly include geography and geography-related factors as one basis of genealogical classifications.

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Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages

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“…Qin and Fuller (2019) postulated that rice and millet spread into southern continental China and Taiwan Island as components of a rainfed cropping systems. The authors argue that rainfed crop economies, such as the millet-based ones in the Middle/Lower Yellow River valley (Leipe et al, 2019; Robbeets and Wang, 2020), were more expansive compared to economies based mainly on wet rice cultivation, such as those in the Lower Yangtze region (Fuller, 2020). Population growth in societies focused on wetland or paddy field rice cultivation, such as those in the Lower Yangtze region, would have been largely absorbed locally by higher productivity and population concentration.…”

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Archaeobotanical evidence of plant cultivation from the Sanbaopi site in south-western Taiwan during the Late Neolithic and Metal Age

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Despite decades of lively debate about Taiwan’s role in the spread of early agriculture, crops and cultivation practices to the Indo-Pacific region, there is little archaeobotanical data from the island. Here we present the first directly dated and systematically analysed macrobotanical records from Taiwan obtained by flotation at the archaeological site Sanbaopi 5 (23°07′03′′N, 120°15′32′′E), representing the Dahu (1400 BCE–100 CE) and Niaosong (100–1400 CE) culture periods. The results suggest that Middle Dahu (900–100 BCE) communities in the study area practiced rainfed crop cultivation with mainly foxtail ( Setaria italica) and broomcorn ( Panicum miliaceum) millet and rice ( Oryza sativa). Pulses ( Vigna angularis, Glycine soja/ max) were also part of the subsistence of local farmers and used as supplementary food and/or green manure. The archaeobotanical record together with archaeological site data for prehistoric China substantiates evidence that the Dahu culture originates in the Lower Yellow River region and migrated to Taiwan along the East China Sea coast. The emergence of the Dahu culture coincided with the spread of mixed millet-rice farming to the Korean Peninsula and Japan and was possibly related to enhanced economic and political expansion of the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties and the long-term weakening of summer monsoon precipitation. Pigeon pea ( Cajanus cajan) and mung bean ( V. radiata var. radiata) assemblages from the sixth century CE Niaosong period highlight the influx of goods, crops, knowledge and people from South and Southeast Asia via southern routes in the context of enhanced exchange across the South China Sea region.

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About millets and beans, words and genes

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Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages

Geography and language divergence: The case of Andic languages

Archaeobotanical evidence of plant cultivation from the Sanbaopi site in south-western Taiwan during the Late Neolithic and Metal Age

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