A5073630241- Linguistics and language evolution
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Ancient Near East History
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Byzantine Studies and History
- European and International Law Studies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Language and Culture
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Leiden University
2016-2022
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2015-2016
The Yamnaya expansions from the western steppe into Europe and Asia during Early Bronze Age (~3000 BCE) are believed to have brought with them Indo-European languages possibly horse husbandry. We analyzed 74 ancient whole-genome sequences across Inner Anatolia show that Botai people associated earliest husbandry derived a hunter-gatherer population deeply diverged Yamnaya. Our results also suggest distinct migrations bringing West Eurasian ancestry South before after, but not at time of,...
ABSTRACT Far northeastern Siberia has been occupied by humans for more than 40 thousand years. Yet, owing to a scarcity of early archaeological sites and human remains, its population history relationship ancient modern populations across Eurasia the Americas are poorly understood. Here, we analyze 34 genome sequences, including two from fragmented milk teeth found at ~31.6 thousand-year-old (kya) Yana RHS site, earliest northernmost Pleistocene remains found. These genomes reveal complex...
Abstract The majority of the Sanskrit Buddhist manuscripts from northern part Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang (China) were found an area where local languages Tocharian A and B spoken. In this article, interplay Sanskrit, religious language, Tocharian, popular is investigated based on example relationship between Udānavarga Udānastotra. To end, a reconstruction text introduction to Udānastotra attempted, which forms transition proper. It argued that was otherwise manuscripts, suggests...
We recount the evidence for so-called “Steppe Hypothesis” discussed in Damgaard et al. 2018 and offer a revised linguistic historical model prehistoric dispersal of three important Indo-European language subgroups—the Anatolian languages into Anatolia, Tocharian Inner Asia, Indo-Iranian South Asia—based on newly analysed archaeogenetic data.
Abstract Tocharian agglutinative case inflexion as well its single series of voiceless stops, the two most striking typological deviations from Proto-Indo-European, can be explained through influence Uralic. A number other features may likewise interpreted due to contact with a Uralic language. The supposed contacts are likely associated Afanas’evo Culture South Siberia. This Indo-European culture probably represents an intermediate phase in movement speakers early Proto-Indo-European...
According to the colophons of Old Uyghur Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā (DKPAM), this collection Buddhist birth legends was translated from a Tocharian A (tohrı) source which in turn based on B (küsän) original. fragment Paris Pelliot presents close parallel legend Kalmāṣapāda and Sutasoma DKPAM. This is so far not attested A. Although existence intermediary text cannot be excluded, that may also have been directly B.
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Abstract The Khotanese and Sogdian genitive plural endings cannot be satisfactorily explained from the traditionally posited ending *- nām . Instead, - nu nw point to nam Instead of assuming a special rule that shortens expected , it is argued evidence East Iranian taken at face value. A short om can reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European as well reflexes are probably an archaism.
The collection of Buddhist legends entitled Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā (DKPAM) is attested in several native languages Central Asia (Tocharian A, Tocharian B, Sogdian, Old Uyghur). While the Uyghur version rather well preserved, only fragments remain DKPAM and Sogdian. article identifies two small B as belonging to avadāna Hariścandra. They are interpreted with reference corresponding tale.
Abstract Hittite and Tocharian share an interrogative pronominal stem in m- next to the well known Proto-Indo-European * kʷi- , kʷe- kʷo- . In Tocharian, m -interrogative is especially frequent as a formative element several interrogative, relative indefinite stems. this paper, these stems are investigated detail, it argued that A ā- posited by Sieg, Siegling & Schulze their Tocharische Grammatik ghost. Although reconstruction of for oldest stage beyond any doubt, difficult use...