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archaeolinguistics; Neolithic; agriculture; Korea; Transeurasian; Yersinia pestis
要旨:
Archaeolinguistics supports the ancestor of the Korean language reaching the Korean peninsula in association with millet farming in the Neolithic. A population decrease on the Korean peninsula after around 3000 BC appears to be part of a broader Late Neolithic decline recognised in many areas of Eurasia. Plague (Yersinia pestis) may have been one cause of this decline in Korea and Japan. (Media summary)