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Preface - Murray Gell-Mann
1. Ancient Human Migrations: A Multidisciplinary Approach - Peter
N. Peregrine, Ilia Peiros, and Marcus Feldman
2. The Multidisciplinary Study of Human Migration: Problems and
Principles - Dean R. Snow
3. Theory of Migration: Implications for Linguistic Evolution -
Sohini Ramachandran and Marcus W. Feldman
4. Cross-Cultural Research in the Study of Migration: Cultural
Features and Language - Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and
Melvin Ember
5. Languages and Migrations: What Can Linguistics Tell Us About
Prehistory and Prehistoric Migrations? - Ilia Peiros
6. Humanity at the Last Glacial Maximum: A Cultural Crisis - Henry
T. Wright
7. Why Are People Mortal? World Mythology and the "Out-of-Africa"
Scenario - Yuri E. Berezkin
8. Neolithic Migrations in the Near East and the Aegean: Linguistic
and Genetic Correlates - Roy King
9. Migratory Mechanism: Rus' and the Magyars in the Ninth Century -
Vladimir Petrukhin
10. Migrations to the Americas - Merritt Ruhlen
11. The Peopling of the Americas as Viewed from the Y Chromosome -
Stephen L. Zegura, Tatiana M. Karafet, and Michael F. Hammer
12. Y-Chromosome Japanese Roots - Tatiana M. Karafet, Stephen L.
Zegura, and Michael F. Hammer
13. Towards an Integrated Theory about the Indonesian Migrations to
Madagascar - Alexander Adelaar
14. Problems and Prospects in the Study of Ancient Human Migrations
- Peter N. Peregrine, Ilia Peiros, and Marcus Feldman
Bibliography
Index
Peter N. Peregrine is professor and chair of anthropology at
Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. He is coeditor of the
Encyclopedia of Prehistory and has authored or coauthored eleven
books, five edited volumes, and over 100 articles, chapters, and
reviews.
Ilia Peiros is a research associate at the Santa Fe
Institute and an affiliate of the Department of Linguistics and
Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He
is a historical and comparative linguist.
Marcus W. Feldman is professor of biology at Stanford
University. He is managing editor of Theoretical Population Biology
and associate editor of Genetics, Human Genetics, Annals of Human
Genomics, Annals of Human Biology, and Complexity.
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