Ethnolinguistic Prehistory. The Peopling of the World from the Perspective of Language, Genes and Material Culture

van Driem, George (2021). Ethnolinguistic Prehistory. The Peopling of the World from the Perspective of Language, Genes and Material Culture. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library: Vol. 26. Leiden: Brill

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This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture, presenting a view from the Himalayas. The phylogeny of language families, the chronology of branching of linguistic family trees and the historical and modern geographical distribution of language communities inform us about the spread of languages and linguistic phyla. The global distribution and the chronology of spread of Y chromosomal haplogroups appears closely correlated with the spread of language families. New findings on ancient DNA have greatly enhanced our understanding of the prehistory and provenance of our biological ancestors. The archaeological study of past material cultures provides yet a third independent window onto the complex prehistory of our species.

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