The Transeurasian homeland: where, what and when?

Robbeets, Martine

doi:10.17617/2.3230627

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The Transeurasian homeland: where, what and when?

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Robbeets, Martine
Eurasia3angle, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Robbeets, M. (2020). The Transeurasian homeland: where, what and when? In M. Robbeets, & A. Savelyev (Eds.), The Oxford guide to the Transeurasian languages (pp. 772-783). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.17617/2.3230627.

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The Farming Language Dispersal Hypothesis boldly claims that agricultural dispersal is an important factor in shaping linguistic diversity. This view has been sharply criticized, especially for the regions currently occupied by the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic languages, where farming is often unviable. Here, I combine the power of linguistic scholarship with archaeological and genetic research to show that the spread of the Transeurasian languages (i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic languages) is indeed driven by agriculture. The integration of the three disciplines in a single approach, for which I use the term “triangulation” reveals a sequence of linguistic expansions that can be linked to the spread of millet and rice agriculture as well as to the dispersal of the Ancient North and South East Asian gene pool in Neolithic and Bronze Age North East Asia.