The Ryukyu Islands and the Northern Frontier of Prehistoric Austronesian Settlement

Hudson, Mark

doi:10.22459/ta45.03.2017.10

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“…Robbeets identifies the original speech community of Transeurasian with the Xinglongwa culture of Neolithic northeast China in the 6th millennium bc. She also proposes that long-debated Austronesian influences on the Japanese language derive from contacts as part of the Neolithic Shandong-Liaodong interaction sphere, a suggestion which is consistent with Hudson's (2017) recent argument that Miyako Island was the northern limit of Austronesian populations in the northwest Pacific and, thus, that Austronesian influences on early Japan did not arrive from the south via the 'ocean road' route up the Ryukyu Islands, as proposed by Kunio Yanagita and other ethnologists.…”

Section: Language Dynamics Andsupporting

confidence: 60%

Millets, rice, and farming/language dispersals in East Asia

Whitman

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2017

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The three papers in this special issue examine the role of agriculture in the spread of language families in prehistoric East Asia. The articles take the 'farming/language dispersal hypothesis' of Bellwood and Renfrew (2002, inter alia) as a point of departure but analyze language family expansions as part of a longterm process. The first paper, by Stevens and Fuller, builds on earlier work by the same authors arguing that plant domestication occurs over prolonged periods of time comprising several millennia (Fuller et al., 2014). This means that, although demographic growth remains the primary cause behind the expansion of agricultural societies and their languages, we also need to look carefully at exactly when such population growth occurred in any archaeological sequence. Stevens and Fuller discuss the complex climatic, geographical and historical factors at work in the initially very different millet and rice farming systems of north China, and argue that those factors can help explain a great deal about subsequent language family dispersals across East and Southeast Asia.

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Section: Language Dynamics Andsupporting

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Millets, rice, and farming/language dispersals in East Asia

Whitman

Hudson²

2017

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“…Benedict 1990 ). Notwithstanding a possible Austronesian presence in the Sakishima islands from Formosa at the end of the third millennium BC (Hudson 2017 ), any alleged ‘Austronesian’ influence on Japonic (Polivanov 1918 , 1924 ; van Hinloopen Labberton 1924 , 1925 ; Whymant, 1926 ; Benedict 1990 ) would have had to antedate the arrival of the Yayoi in Japan, deriving from the Lóngshān interaction sphere connecting the Dàwènkǒu culture of Shāndōng with Formosa and other coastal cultures, e.g. Qīngliángǎng in northern Jiāngsū, Mǎjiābāng in the Yangtze delta.…”

Section: The Peopling Of Japanmentioning

confidence: 99%