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Workshop on languages and genes: Recent work and emerging results

 

Conference material

 

 

pdf (.pdf) or powerpoint (.ppt) files may be opened in the browser (left-click with the mouse) or downloaded (right-click). Communications are sorted by names of first authors.

 

  • Can genes tell where languages came from? The case of Afroasiatic (Mahé Ben Hamed) (ppt)

  • Y-chromosome diversity in Central Africa (Gemma Berniell-Lee et al.) (ppt)

  • Upper Palaeolithic Demography in Europe from archaeological data (Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel) (pdf)

  • The Neolithic transition in Europe: different views from population genetic (a tentative discussion around some methodological questions) (Lounès Chikhi) (ppt)

  • Genes, peoples, and languages across the Western Mediterranean (David Comas) (ppt)

  • Research on Macrofamilies: The States of the Art (Bernard Comrie) (ppt)

  • The Berbers: Linguistic and genetic diversity (Jean-Michel Dugoujon & Gérard Philippson) (ppt)

  • Language Histories in Island Melanesia (Michael Dunn et al.) (pdf)

  • mtDNA Chronology of human prehistory: (Peter Forster) (The author suggests you have a look at
    his website where his slide show is available, along with an explanatory text and free pdf files for downloading : http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/genetics/mtDNAworld/one.html)
  • Central Asia ; A common inquiry in genetics, linguistics and anthropology (Evelyne Heyer) (ppt)

  • The Geography of South Eurasian languages (Guillaume Jacques) (ppt)

  • Language groups in Northern Eurasia (François Jacquesson) (ppt)
  • Languages & populations in Northeastern India (François Jacquesson) (ppt)

  • The genetics of the Finno-Ugric-speaking populations in Europe (Toomas Kivisild) (ppt)

  • Languages and Genes of the Greater Himalayan Region: The Himalayan Paradigm (Peter de Knijff) (ppt)

  • Languages in Contact (Maarten Mous) (ppt)

  • MtDNA and Y chromosome variation and language replacement in the Caucasus (Ivan Nasidze & Mark Stoneking) (ppt)

  • Linguistic and genetic singularities in the Western Pyrenees: a review of the latest proposals about Basque (B. Oyharçabal) (ppt)

  • North West and North East Africa: a different perspective from mtDNA haplogroups distribution (Erwan Pennarun) (pdf)

  • MtDNA diversity in central Africa: from hunter-gathering to agriculturalism (Lluis Quintana-Murci et al.) (ppt)

  • The formation of East Asian Language families: a partial scenario (Laurent Sagart et al.) (ppt)

  • Ethno-linguistic and genetic variation in Central Africa: From Hunter-gathering to Agriculturalism (Lolke Van der Veen et al.) (ppt)

 

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