Farmers and their languages: The first expansions

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5619, 2003, Pages 597-603

  Diamond, Jared ^a   Bellwood, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS;

HUMAN POPULATIONS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; FARMING SYSTEM; FOOD PRODUCTION; LANGUAGE; POPULATION MIGRATION;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARCHEOLOGY; CROP; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LIVESTOCK; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ARCHAEOLOGY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CULTURE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES; GENETICS, POPULATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037466612     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078208     Document Type: Review

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