Bringing together linguistic and genetic evidence to test the Bantu expansion

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1741, 2012, Pages 3256-3263

  de Filippo, Cesare ^a   Bostoen, Koen ^b,c,d   Stoneking, Mark ^a   Pakendorf, Brigitte ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^e Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

Author keywords

Autosome; Bantu; Human migration; Lexical data; MtDNA; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; DISPERSAL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL RECORD; LANGUAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION MIGRATION; RAINFOREST;

CAMEROON; NIGERIA;

EID: 84863871505     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0318     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Diamond, J. & Bellwood, P. 2003 Farmers and their languages: the first expansions. Science 300, 597-603. (doi:10.1126/science.1078208)
2. Nurse, D. & Philippson, G. 2003 The Bantu languages. Routledge Language Family Series 4. London, UK: Routledge.
3. Holden, C. J. & Gray, R. D. 2006 Rapid radiation, borrowing and dialect continua in the Bantu languages. In Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages (eds P. Forster & C. Renfrew), pp. 19-31. Cambridge, MA: MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
4. Holden, C. J. 2002 Bantu language trees reflect the spread of farming across Sub-Saharan Africa: a maximum-parsimony analysis. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269, 793-799. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.1955)
5. Rexová, K., Bastin, Y. & Frynta, D. 2006 Cladistic analysis of Bantu languages: a new tree based on combined lexical and grammatical data. Naturwissenschaften 93, 189-194. (doi:10.1007/s00114-006-0088-z)
6. Coupez, A., Evrard, E. & Vansina, J. 1975 Classification d'un échantillon de langues bantoues d'après la lexicostatistique. Africana Linguistica 6, 131-158.
7. Möhlig, W. J. 1981 Stratification in the history of the Bantu languages. Sprach. Gesch. Afr. 3, 251-317.
8. Newman, J. L. 1995 The peopling of Africa: a geographic interpretation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
9. Bastin, Y., Coupez, A. & Mann, M. 1999 Continuity and divergence in the Bantu languages from a lexicostatistic study. Tervuren, Belgium: Annales, Sciences humaines, Royal Museum for Central Africa.
10. Henrici, A. 1973 Numerical classification of Bantu languages. Afr. Lang. Stud. 14, 82-104.
11. Heine, B., Hoff, H. & Vossen, R. 1977 Neuere Ergebnisse zur Territorialgeschichte der Bantu. In Zur Sprachgeschichte und Ethnohistorie in Afrika (eds W. J. Möhlig, F. Rottland & B. Heine), pp. 52-72. Berlin, Germany: Dietrich Reimer.
12. Ehret, C. 2001 Bantu expansions: re-envisioning a central problem of early African history. Int. J. Afr. Hist. Stud. 34, 5-27. (doi:10.2307/3097285)
13. Pakendorf, B., Bostoen, K. & de Filippo, C. 2011 Molecular perspectives on the Bantu expansion: a synthesis. Lang. Dynam. Change 1, 50-88. (doi:10.1163/221058211X570349)
14. Nichols, J. 1997 Modelling ancient population structures and movement in linguistics. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 26, 359-384. (doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.359)
15. Salas, A., Richards, M., De la Fe, T., Lareu, M.-V., Sobrino, B., Sánchez-Diz, P., Macaulay, V. & Carracedo, A. 2002 The making of the African mtDNA landscape. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 71, 1082-1111. (doi:10.1086/344348)
16. Gignoux, C. R., Henn, B. M. & Mountain, J. L. 2011 Rapid, global demographic expansions after the origins of agriculture. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 108, 6044-6049. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0914274108)
17. Wood, E. T. et al. 2005 Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome and mtDNA variation in Africa: Evidence for sex-biased demographic processes. Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 13, 867-876. (doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201408)
18. de Filippo, C. et al. 2011 Y- chromosomal variation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights into the history of Niger-Congo groups. Mol. Biol. Evol. 28, 1255-1269. (doi:10.1093/molbev/msq312)
19. Tishkoff, S. A. et al. 2009 The genetic structure and history of Africans and African Americans. Science 324, 1035-1044. (doi:10.1126/science.1172257)
20. Henn, B. M. et al. 2011 Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 108, 5154-5162. (doi:10.1073/pnas.1017511108)
21. Sikora, M., Laayouni, H., Calafell, F., Comas, D. & Bertranpetit, J. 2011 A genomic analysis identifies a novel component in the genetic structure of Sub-Saharan African populations. Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 19, 84-88. (doi:10.1038/ejhg.2010.141)
22. Klieman, K. A. 2003 'The Pygmies were our compass': Bantu and Batwa in the history of west central Africa, early times to c. 1900 CE. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
23. Blench, R. 1999 Are the African Pygmies an ethnographic fiction? In Central African hunter-gatherers in a multidisciplinary perspective (eds K. Biesbrouck, S. Elders & G. Rossel), pp. 41-60. Leiden, The Netherlands: CNWS.
24. Guthrie, M. 1948 The classification of the Bantu languages. London, UK: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute.
25. Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q. D. & Meade, A. 2007 Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature 449, 717-720. (doi:10.1038/nature06176)
26. Pagel, M. & Meade, A. 2004 A phylogenetic mixture model for detecting pattern-heterogeneity in gene sequence or character-state data. Syst. Biol. 53, 571-581. (10.1080/10635150490468675)
27. Sukumaran, J. & Holder, M. T. 2010 Dendropy: a python library for phylogenetic computing. Bioinformatics 26, 1569-1571. (doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq228)
28. Vansina, J. 1995 New linguistic evidence and the Bantu expansion. J. Afr. Hist. 36, 173-195. (doi:10.1017/S0021853700034101)
29. Benjamini, Y. & Hochberg, Y. 1995 Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing. J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B Stat. Methodol. 57, 289-300.
30. Lansing, J. S. et al. 2007 Coevolution of languages and genes on the island of Sumba, eastern Indonesia. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 104, 16022-16026. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0704451104)
31. Hunley, K., Dunn, M., Lindström, E., Reesink, G., Terrill, A., Healy, M. E., Koki, G., Friedlaender, F. R. & Friedlaender, J. S. 2008 Genetic and linguistic coevolution in Northern Island Melanesia. PLoS Genet. 4, e1000239. (doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000239)
32. Alves, I., Coelho, M., Gignoux, C., Damasceno, A., Prista, A. & Rocha, J. 2011 Genetic homogeneity across Bantu-speaking groups from Mozambique and Angola challenges early split scenarios between east and west Bantu populations. Hum. Biol. 83, 13-38. (doi:10.3378/027.083.0102).
33. Raufaste, N. & Rousset, F. 2001 Are partial Mantel tests adequate? Evolution 55, 1703-1705.
34. Castellano, S. & Balletto, E. 2002 Is the partial Mantel test inadequate? Evolution 56, 1871-1703.
35. Coelho, M., Sequeira, F., Luiselli, D., Beleza, S. & Rocha, J. 2009 On the edge of Bantu expansions: mtDNA, Y chromosome and lactase persistence genetic variation in southwestern Angola. BMC Evol. Biol. 9, 80. (doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-80)
36. Castrí, L., Tofanelli, S., Garagnani, P., Bini, C., Fosella, X., Pelotti, S., Paoli, G., Pettener, D. & Luiselli, D. 2009 MtDNA variability in two Bantu-speaking populations (Shona and Hutu) from eastern Africa: implications for peopling and migration patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 140, 302-311. (doi:10.1002/ajpa.21070)
37. Matras, Y. 2009 Language contact. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
38. Dunn, M., Greenhill, S. J., Levinson, S. C. & Gray, R. D. 2011 Evolved structure of language shows lineagespecific trends in word-order universals. Nature 473, 79-82. (doi:10.1038/nature09923)
39. Reesink, G., Singer, R. & Dunn, M. 2009 Explaining the linguistic diversity of Sahul using population models. PLoS Biol. 7, e1000241. (doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000241)
40. Bostoen, K. & Grégoire, C. 2007 La question bantoue: bilan et perspectives. Mémoires de la Socíeté de Linguistique de Paris. Nouvelle Série. 15, 73-91.