Reassessing Australia’s Linguistic Prehistory

Linguistic prehistory of the Australian boab

Boabs, a close relation of the African baobabs, are found only in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and a region close by in the Northern Territory. Here several of the words for the boab tree and its parts are examined with special emphasis on loanwords which cross language family boundaries going in a west-east direction. It is proposed that this linguistic diffusion may reflect dispe...

Genetic and linguistic diversity: Global distribution and implications for prehistory

Whilst some have claimed that languages and genes evolve in tandem within the human population, data on genetic diversity show that this is not the generally the case. Human genetic diversity is greatest within, and reduces with distance from, Africa. This pattern arose from serial founder effects as an African source population colonised the rest of the globe. Diversity of language families is...

Contact in the prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and genetic perspectives

Prehistory of Programming Languages

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Chagas disease in prehistory.

The classical hypothesis proposes that Chagas disease has been originated in the Andean region among prehistoric people when they started domesticating animals, changing to sedentary habits, and adopting agriculture. These changes in their way of life happened nearly 6,000 years ago. However, paleoparasitological data based on molecular tools showed that Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas d...