Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00123709" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00123709 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04108-8" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04108-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04108-8" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-021-04108-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages

Original language description

The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian population history1,2,3. A key problem is the relationship between linguistic dispersals, agricultural expansions and population movements4,5. Here we address this question by ‘triangulating’ genetics, archaeology and linguistics in a unified perspective. We report wide-ranging datasets from these disciplines, including a comprehensive Transeurasian agropastoral and basic vocabulary; an archaeological database of 255 Neolithic–Bronze Age sites from Northeast Asia; and a collection of ancient genomes from Korea, the Ryukyu islands and early cereal farmers in Japan, complementing previously published genomes from East Asia. Challenging the traditional ‘pastoralist hypothesis’6,7,8, we show that the common ancestry and primary dispersals of Transeurasian languages can be traced back to the first farmers moving across Northeast Asia from the Early Neolithic onwards, but that this shared heritage has been masked by extensive cultural interaction since the Bronze Age. As well as marking considerable progress in the three individual disciplines, by combining their converging evidence we show that the early spread of Transeurasian speakers was driven by agriculture.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nature

ISSN

0028-0836

e-ISSN

1476-4687

Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

599

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

616-621

UT code for WoS article

000716910900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85118854874