By steppe highway or mountain corridors?: exploring the Archaeolinguistic 
arguments for the provenance of western Eurasian crops and livestock in Central 
and East Asia

Bjorn, Rasmus

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By steppe highway or mountain corridors?: exploring the Archaeolinguistic arguments for the provenance of western Eurasian crops and livestock in Central and East Asia

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Bjorn, Rasmus
Archaeolinguistic Research Group, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Bjorn, R. (2023). By steppe highway or mountain corridors?: exploring the Archaeolinguistic arguments for the provenance of western Eurasian crops and livestock in Central and East Asia. In M. Hudson, & M. Robbeets (Eds.), Agropastoralism and languages across Eurasia: expansion, exchange, environment (pp. 85-95). Oxford: BAR Publishing.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-A8F6-0

Abstract

Wheat, barley, cattle, and horses are ancient domesticated crops and animals imegral for the understanding of developments across Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia. It is welhestablished that they entered East Asia from Central Asia, but so far only vague ideas of their immediate provenance and cultural context have been presented, often in relation to the Tocharian and Iranic branches of Indo-European. In this chapter, I scnninise the earliest comparative linguistic evidence for all four domesticates in relation to emerging chronologies from archaeology and genetics. It is concluded that neither wheat net barley an of Indo-European descent, while the horse can be succinctly associated with the Ironic expansion with the Andronovo horizon. Only the East Asian words for cattle may plausibly be connected with an early stage of tho Tocharian language carried to the region with Atanasievo.