Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis Book

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	Foreword
Ch. 1	'The Emerging Synthesis': the Archaeogenetics of Farming/Language Dispersals and other Spread Zones	3
Ch. 2	Farmers, Forages, Languages, Genes: the Genesis of Agricultural Societies	17
Ch. 3	The Expansion Capacity of Early Agricultural Systems: a Comparative Perspective on the Spread of Agriculture	31
Ch. 4	The Economies of Late Pre-farming and Farming Communities and their Relation to the Problem of Dispersals	41
Ch. 5	What Drives Linguistic Diversification and Language Spread?	49
Ch. 6	Inference of Neolithic Population Histories using Y-chromosome Haplotypes	65
Ch. 7	Demic Diffusion as the Basic Process of Human Expansions	79
Ch. 8	The DNA Chronology of Prehistoric Human Dispersals	89
Ch. 9	What Molecules Can't Tell Us about the Spread of Languages and the Neolithic	99
Ch. 10	The Natufian Culture and the Early Neolithic: Social and Economic Trends in Southwestern Asia	113
Ch. 11	Archaeology and Linguistic Diversity in North Africa	127
Ch. 12	The Prehistory of a Dispersal: the Proto-Afrasian (Afroasiatic) Farming Lexicon	135
Ch. 13	Transitions to Farming and Pastoralism in North Africa	151
Ch. 14	Language Family Expansions: Broadening our Understandings of Cause from an African Perspective	163
Ch. 15	Language and Farming Dispersals in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Particular Reference to the Bantu-speaking Peoples	177
Ch. 16	An Agricultural Perspective on Dravidian Historical Linguistics: Archaeological Crop Packages, Livestock and Dravidian Crop Vocabulary	191
Ch. 17	The Genetics of Language and Farming Spread in India
Ch. 18	Languages and Farming Dispersals: Austroasiatic Languages and Rice Cultivation	223
Ch. 19	Tibeto-Burman Phylogeny and Prehistory: Languages, Material Culture and Genes	233
Ch. 20	The Austronesian Dispersal: Languages, Technologies and People	251
Ch. 21	Island Southeast Asia: Spread or Friction Zone?	275
Ch. 22	Polynesians: Devolved Taiwanese Rice Farmers or Wallacean Maritime Traders with Fishing, Foraging and Horticultural Skills?	287
Ch. 23	Can the Hypothesis of Language/Agriculture Co-dispersal to Tested with Archaeogenetics?	299
Ch. 24	Agriculture and Language Change in the Japanese Islands	311
Ch. 25	Contextualizing Proto-languages, Homelands and Distant Genetic Relationship: Some Reflections on the Comparative Method from a Mesoamerican Perspective	321
Ch. 26	Proto-Uto-Aztecan Cultivation and the Northern Devolution	331
Ch. 27	The Spread of Maize Agriculture in the U.S. Southwest	341
Ch. 28	Conflict and Language Dispersal: Issues and a New World Example	357
Ch. 29	Issues of Scale and Symbiosis: Unpicking the Agricultural 'Package'	369
Ch. 30	Demography and Dispersal of Early Farming Populations at the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition: Linguistic and Genetic Implications	379
Ch. 31	Pioneer Farmers? The Neolithic Transition in Western Europe	395
Ch. 32	Farming Dispersal in Europe and the Spread of the Indo-European Language Family	409
Ch. 33	DNA Variation in Europe: Estimating the Demographic Impact of Neolithic Dispersals	421
Ch. 34	Admixture and the Demic Diffusion Model in Europe	435
Ch. 35	Complex Signals for Population Expansions in Europe and Beyond
Ch. 36	Analyzing Genetic Data in a Model-based Framework: Inferences about European Prehistory	459
	Postscript: Concluding Observations	467