Multidisciplinary perspectives on the Austronesian homeland: A critique

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2012-09-01

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University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Linguistics

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2012

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Linguistics, archaeology, and genetics have been used to reconstruct the past. Where findings differ, there is a tendency to rely on a hierarchy of reliability in the sciences. With regard to the Austronesian homeland, it has been asserted that linguistics and archaeology rely on each other’s evidence for postulating an Out-of-Taiwan hypothesis. This paper examines the arguments that use individual lines of evidence. Whereas evidence from linguistics and archaeology support an Out-of-Taiwan hypothesis, genetics does not provide a coherent scenario for or against such a hypothesis. Issues of dating, sampling, and non-paternity should be addressed before genetics can be reliably used in conjunction with linguistics and archaeology.

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linguistics

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Lee, Nala Huiying. 2012. Multidisciplinary perspectives on the Austronesian homeland: A critique. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics 43(4).

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