Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions

By J. Diamond, P. Bellwood. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics, Paleontology

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Predicting the trend of indicators related to Covid-19 using the combined MLP-MC model (2021, neutral): “Section 5 explains the model evaluation metrics, and Section 6 includes a discussion and conclusion.”
Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa (2017, background): “The Bantu expansion is thus widely seen as a powerful model linking archaeological, linguistic, and genetic evidence for sub-Saharan Africa, and has attracted global attention as an example of the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis (e.g., Bellwood and Renfrew, 2002; Diamond and Bellwood, 2003; Be”
Early bananas in Africa: the state of the art (2009, background): “The introduction and spread of bananas in Africa may also have been key factors in the Bantu expansion, one of the most important topics in African prehistory (Diamond & Bellwood 2003, Eggert 2005, Vansina 1984, 1995).”
Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin (2003, background): “The origin of the Indo-European language family is “the most intensively studied, yet still most recalcitrant, problem of historical linguistics&rdquo”
Gender in Language and Gender in Employment (2015, background): “For example, according to Diamond and Bellwood (2003), before 1492 A.”
Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, background): “The latter he defined in abstract terms designed to represent a quantitative measure of skill in some task, such as basketweaving ability or stone tool production accuracy.”
The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with Phylogenies) (2007, background): “In a recent review, Diamond and Bellwood (2003) boldly claim that the dispersal histories of fifteen major language families, including Indo-European, Uto-Aztecan, Bantu and Austonesian, are consistent with this hypothesis.”
The emergence of agriculture in southern China (2010, background): “…the southward dispersal of rice agriculture from the Yangtze Valley was perhaps related to the expansions of Austroasiatic- and Austronesian-speaking populations into Mainland and Island Southeast Asia respectively (e.g. Higham & Lu 1998; Higham 2002; Diamond & Bellwood 2003; Bellwood 2005: 222).”
Patterns and processes in crop domestication: an historical review and quantitative analysis of 203 global food crops. (2012, background): “…transition from hunter-gatherer societies to settled agriculture (the ‘Neolithic revolution’; Childe, 1949) occurred independently over a dozen times in different regions around the world from c. 10–12 000 yr ago (ya) to as recently as 3000–4000 ya (Diamond, 2002; Diamond & Bellwood, 2003).”
Branching, blending, and the evolution of cultural similarities and differences among human populations (2006, positive): “…will be a strong association between cultural variation and linguistic and biological patterns (e.g., Ammerman & Cavalli-Sforza, 1984; Bellwood, 1996, 2001; Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi, & Piazza, 1994; Cavalli-Sforza et al., 1988; Diamond & Bellwood, 2003; Kirch & Green, 1987, 2001; Renfrew, 1987).”