List of plates ............................................ viii
List of figures ............................................. ix
List of maps ............................................... xii
List of tables ............................................ xiii
List of contributors ........................................ xv
Obituaries ................................................ xxiv
Preface ................................................. xxviii
Acknowledgements ........................................... xxx
List of abbreviations ..................................... xxxi
Introduction ................................................. 1
Methodological issues: linking genetic, linguistic and
archaeological evidence ...................................... 3
ROGER BLENCH, MALCOLM ROSS, AND ALICIA SANCHEZ-MAZAS
PART 1 Archaeology and prehistory ............................. 21
1 Austronesian cultural origins: out of Taiwan, via the
Batanes Islands, and onwards to Western Polynesia ........... 23
PETER BELLWOOD AND EUSEBIO DIZON
2 Evidence for a late onset of agriculture in the Lower
Yangtze region and challenges for an archaeobotany of rice .. 40
DORIAN Q. FULLER, LING QIN AND EMMA HARVEY
3 Livestock in ancient China: an archaeozoological
perspective ................................................. 84
JING YUAN, HAN JIAN-LIN. AND ROGER BLENCH
4 Stratification in the peopling of China: how far does the
linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology? ........ 105
ROGER BLENCH
5 The expansion of Setaria farmers in East Asia:
a linguistic and archaeological model ...................... 133
LAURENT SAGART
PART II Linguistics .......................................... 159
6 The integrity of the Austronesian language family: from
Taiwan to Oceania .......................................... 161
MALCOLM ROSS
7 The Formosan language family ............................... 182
ILIA PEIROS
8 Time perspective of Formosan Aborigines .................... 211
PAUL JEN-KUEI LI
9 To which language family does Chinese belong, or what's
in a name? ................................................. 219
GEORGE VAN DRIEM
10 Altaic loans in Old Chinese ................................ 254
SERGEI A. STAROSTIN, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ILIA PEIROS
11 Comparing Japanese and Korean .............................. 263
ROY ANDREW MILLER
12 The speed of language change, typology and history:
languages, speakers and demography in North-East India ..... 287
FRANÇOIS JACQUESSON
13 The GM genetic polymorphism in Taiwan aborigines: new
data revealing remarkable differentiation patterns ......... 313
ALICIA SANCHEZ-MAZAS, LUDMILLA OSIPOVA, JEAN-MICHEL
DUGOUJON, LAURENT SAGART, AND ESTELLA S. POLONI
14 Maternal lineage ancestry of Taiwan Aborigines shared
with the Polynesians ....................................... 334
JEAN A. TREJAUT, TOOMAS KIVISILD, JUN HUN LOO, CHIEN
LIANG LEE, CHUN LIN HE, CHEN CHUNG CHU, HUI LIN LEE, AND
MARIE LIN
15 Mitochondrial DNA diversity of Tao-Yami and Batan
islanders: relationships with other Taiwanese aborigines ... 349
JUN HUN LOO, JEAN TREJAUT, CHEN-CHUNG CHU, AND MARIE LIN
16 A genetic perspective on the origins and dispersal of
the Austronesians: mitochondrial DNA variation from
Madagascar to Easter Island ................................ 356
ERIKA HAGELBERG, MURRAY COX, WULF SCHIEFENHÖVEL, AND IAN
FRAME
17 A DNA signature for the expansion of irrigation in Bali? ... 376
J. STEPHEN LANSING, TATIANA M. KARAFET, JOHN
SCHOENFELDER, AND MICHAEL F. HAMMER
18 The effect of history and life-style on genetic structure
of North Asian populations ................................. 395
TATIANA M. KARAFET, LUDMILA P. OSIPOVA, AND MICHAEL
F. HAMMER
19 Y-chromosome phylogeography in Asia: inferring haplogroup
origins and polarity of haplogroup dispersion .............. 416
PETER A. UNDERHILL
20 Understanding yak pastoralism in Central Asian Highlands:
mitochondrial DNA evidence for origin, domestication and
dispersal of domestic yak .................................. 427
XUE-BIN QI, HAN JIANLIN, ROGER BLENCH, J. EDWARD О. REGE,
AND OLIVIER HANOTTE
Index ......................................................... 443
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