Past human migrations in East Asia : matching archaeology, linguistics and genetics / edited by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas ... [et al.]

Includes bibliographical references and index

Austronesian cultural origins : out of Taiwan, via the Batanes Islands, and onwards to western Polynesia / Peter Bellwood and Eusebio Dizon -- Evidence for a late onset of agriculture in the lower Yangtze Region and challenges for an archaeobotany of rice / Dorian Q. Fuller, Ling Qin, and Emma Harvey -- Livestock in ancient China : an archaeozoological perspective / Jing Yuan, Han Jian-Lin, and Roger Blench -- Stratification in the peopling of China : how far does the linguistic evidence match genetics and archaeology? / Roger Blench -- The expansion of setaria farmers in East Asia : a linguistic and archaeological model / Laurent Sagart -- The integrity of the Austronesian language family : from Taiwan to Oceania / Malcolm Ross -- The Formosan language family / Ilia Peiros -- Time perspective of Formosan aborigines / Paul Jen-Kuei Li -- To which language family does Chinese belong, or what's in a name? / George van Driem -- Altaic loans in old Chinese / Sergei A. Starostin, with an introduction by Ilia Peiros -- Comparing Japanese and Korean / Roy Andrew Miller -- The speed of language change, typology and history : languages, speakers and demography in north-east India / Francois Jacquesson -- The GM genetic polymorphism in Taiwan aborigines : new data revealing remarkable differentiation patterns / Alicia Sanchez-Mazas ... [et al.] -- Maternal lineage ancestry of Taiwan aborigines shared with the Polynesians / Jean A. Trejaut ... [et al.] -- Mitochondrial DNA diversity of Tao-Yami and Batan islanders : relationships with other Taiwanese aborigines / Jun Hun Loo ... [et al.] -- A genetic perspective on the origins and dispersal of the Austronesians : mitochondrial DNA variation from Madagascar to Easter Island / Erika Hagelberg ... [et al.] -- A DNA signature for the expansion of irrigation in Bali? / J. Stephen Lansing ... [et al.] -- The effect of history and life-style on genetic structure of north Asian populations / Tatiana M. Karafet, Ludmila P. Osipova, and Michael F. Hammer -- Y-chromosome phylogeography in Asia : inferring haplogroup origins and polarity of haplogroup dispersion / Peter A. Underhill -- Understanding yak pastoralism in Central Asian highlands : mitochondrial DNA evidence for origin, domestication and dispersal of the domestic yak / Xue-Bin Qi ... [et al.]