subota, 25. kolovoza 2012.

Indo-European language trees fit with an agricultural expansion from Anatolia

A new paper in Science uses Bayesian phylogeographic methods to model the spatial expansion of Indo-European languages from their Anatolian homeland. 








"We found decisive support for an Anatolian origin 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 8000 to 9500 years ago"


An informative video shows how the authors estimate the process took place across space and time:





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