Farming and Language in Island Southeast Asia

@article{Donohue2010FarmingAL,
  title={Farming and Language in Island Southeast Asia},
  author={Mark Donohue and Tim Denham},
  journal={Current Anthropology},
  year={2010},
  volume={51},
  pages={223 - 256}
}
Current portrayals of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) over the past 5,000 years are dominated by discussion of the Austronesian “farming/language dispersal,” with associated linguistic replacement, genetic clines, Neolithic “packages,” and social transformations. The alternative framework that we present improves our understanding of the nature of the Austronesian language dispersal from Taiwan and better accords with the population genetics, archaeological evidence, and crop domestication… Expand
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