Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family.
Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family.
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10.1126/science.1219669
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2012-08-24
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Atkinson QD
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Bouckaert R;Lemey P;Dunn M;Greenhill SJ;Alekseyenko AV;Drummond AJ;Gray RD;Suchard MA;Atkinson QD
There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of the Indo-European language family. The conventional view places the homeland in the Pontic steppes approximately 6kya. An alternative hypothesis claims the languages spread from Anatolia with the expansion of farming 8–9.5kya. Here we use Bayesian phylogeographic approaches together with basic vocabulary data from 103 ancient and contemporary Indo-European languages to explicitly model the expansion of the family and test between the homeland hypotheses. We find decisive support for an Anatolian over a steppe origin. Both the inferred timing and root location of the Indo-European language trees fit with an agricultural expansion from Anatolia beginning in the 9th millennium BP. These results highlight the critical role phylogeographic inference can play in resolving longstanding debates about human prehistory.
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