Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin

By R. Gray, Quentin D. Atkinson. 2003

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Subfields: Archeology, Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics

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Bayesian analysis of elapsed times in continuous‐time Markov chains (2008, methodology): “To briefly demonstrate the poor tail behavior of the likelihood function, we consider a subset of glottochronology language data analyzed in Gray and Atkinson (2003) .”
Towards the understanding of post-glacial spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroups in Europe and beyond: a phylogeographic approach (2004, background): “More recently, an extensive study on 87 languages yielded a support for the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin (Gray and Atkinson 2003).”
Cultural macroevolution and the transmission of traits (2006, methodology): “Employing phylogenetic methods developed within biology, modern linguists are reconstructing language and, by inference, population histories, such as the expansion of Austronesian languages across the Pacific,21 Bantu in Africa,22 and Indo-European across Europe.5 By incorporating maximum likelihoo”
Evolution in Archaeology (2008, methodology): “Gray & Atkinson (2003), for example, used phylogenetic methods to estimate the most probable date of the root of the Indo-European language family tree, obtaining a result that fits much better with Renfrew’s (1987) agricultural dispersal model of Indo-European spread than with the so-called Kurgan…”
Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “After all, in the modern era, language change has been astonishingly rapid, leading, for example, to the wide phonological and syntactic diversity of the Indo-European language group, from a common ancestor about 10,000 years ago (Gray & Atkinson 2003).”
Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: Phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes (2014, methodology): “…Buckley, 2012; Currie and Mace, 2011; Currie et al., 2010; Darwent and O’Brien, 2006; Fortunato and Jordan, 2010; García Rivero and O’Brien, 2014; Gray and Atkinson, 2003; Gray and Jordan, 2000; Gray et al., 2009; Holden and Mace, 2003; Jennings and Waters, 2014; Jordan and Shennan, 2003;…”
Evolutionary Linguistics (2008, methodology): “However, this method suffers from a number of defects (Atkinson & Gray 2005, p. 520; Gray & Atkinson 2003, p. 436).”
On the relationship between interindividual cultural transmission and population-level cultural diversity: a case study of weaving in Iranian tribal populations (2009, background): “For example, many languages have been found to exhibit similarities that can be traced back to common ancestral populations that existed thousands of years ago (Gray & Atkinson, 2003; Gray & Jordan, 2000; Holden, 2002; Rexová et al., 2003).”
The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with Phylogenies) (2007, methodology): “However, at least in the case of language trees, this seems unlikely: language trees that have been constructed from basic vocabulary using phylogenetic methods for three major language families (Gray and Jordan 2000; Holden 2002; Gray and Atkinson 2003) are broadly congruent with classifications pr”
The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009, methodology): “Application of cladistics and Bayesian phylogenetics to vocabulary allow much firmer inferences about the date of divergences between languages (Atkinson & Gray 2005; Gray & Atkinson 2003).”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “Given that Indo-European probably arose as a language family about 8,000 years ago (Gray & Atkinson 2003), this translates into rates of evolution (Pagel 2000) as low as that of some genetic elements.”
Phylogenetics and Material Cultural Evolution (2007, methodology): “…proximity rather than linguistic affinity (the Slavic and Baltic languages are sister groups within the family of the Indo-European languages [Gray and Atkinson 2003; Rexová, Frynta, and Zrzavý 2003] whereas the Finnic languages belong to the Ural-Altaic family of languages [Uralic and…”
The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages (2012, background): “For instance, Gray and Atkinson (2003) estimate separation times between language groups within the Indo European family.”