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SUMMARY:Mini-Seminar: Using the dog to date Torricelli languages with linguistic paleontology\, with Erik Elgh
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nThe earliest archaeological dog remains in Melanesia found to date are from Babase Island\, New Ireland\, and are associated with the Early Lapita layers on the site\, thus dating from ca. 3300-3000 BP (Summerhayes et al. 2019\, see Manne et al. 2020 for an overview of dog remains in the area). The formation of the Lapita culture in the Bismarck Archipelago is in turn associated with the influx of Austronesians\, more specifically speakers of Proto-Oceanic (Bellwood 2007:234\, Pawley 2007 echoes this view). Thus\, the introduction of the dog to Melanesia is likely tied to the arrival of the Austronesians to the area. \nIn the rest of the world\, the presence of domesticated dogs is ubiquitous in the time depths we can hope to reach by linguistic reconstruction. By contrast\, in Melanesia and thus New Guinea\, the late date of first appearance makes the dog amenable to inclusion in analyses of linguistic paleontology. Linguistic paleontology involves correlating terms reconstructed for proto languages with definable archaeological phenomena\, thus saying something about the time and place these proto languages were spoken. The foremost example is probable the so called ‘wheel line’\, used to delimit the time of non-Anatolian Indo-European to after the invention of wheeled vehicles (see e.g. Anthony & Ringe 2015). Using the same method\, if a word for ‘dog’ can be reconstructed for a Melanesian proto language\, it shows that this proto-language must have split after ca. 3300 BP when the dog was introduced. \nIn this talk\, I reconstruct a word for ‘dog’ for a large subgroup of Torricelli languages. Furthermore\, I investigate words for ‘dog’ in nine other language families in the Sepik-Ramu basin and surrounding area in order to exclude large scale borrowing waves giving rise to the pattern seen in the relevant Torricelli languages. Disproving such waves\, I show that the most recent common ancestor of a big proportion of Torricelli languages must have split after 3300 BP\, rejecting earlier proposals stating that the current distribution of the family must be ‘several millenia’ or ‘six to five thousand years’ old (Foley 2018:296 and Swadling 1990\, respectively).\nI also discuss issues pertaining to Oceanic words for ‘dog’ in relation to those of languages in the Sepik-Ramu basin. For instance\, the words in some Torricelli and many non-Torricelli languages are similar to those of the Schouten Linkage Oceanic languages\, while at least one Schouten Linkage language\, Arop-Sissano\, seems to have borrowed from Olo\, a local Torricelli language (as noted already by Hudson 1989). Additionally\, I propose a historical scenario accounting for the scatter of forms that bear similarity to Proto-Austronesian *asu1 ‘dog’ (as reconstructed by Blust et al. 2023)\, reflexes of which are deemed to be absent in Proto-Oceanic (see e.g. Lynch 1991 and Pawley 2007). \nErik Elgh is an affiliated researcher in general linguistics at Uppsala University\, and currently participates in the Postgraduate Linguistics Program\, Faculty of Humanities\, Udayana University\, Indonesia
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/mini-seminar-using-the-dog-to-date-torricelli-languages-with-linguistic-paleontology-with-erik-elgh/
LOCATION:Villa Lugnet\, von Kraemers allé 8\, Uppsala\, Sweden\, 75236\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Mini-Seminars,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Genetic relatedness in Stone Age Scandinavia\, speaker Helena Malmström
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nDid genetic relatedness matter in Scandinavian Stone Age societies? And if so\, how? The increase in the number of individuals with available ancient DNA data\, coupled with new tools for assessing relatedness from such data\, now allows us to infer kinship patterns beyond broad-scale population structures. \nThis talk will summarise some of the ongoing research on genetic kinship structures among individuals who lived in present-day Scandinavia between 3\,500 and 2\,300 BCE. Three cultural complexes existed during this period\, and previous research has shown that they were genetically distinct from each other. While two of them had an agricultural base\, one (the Funnel Beaker Culture) practised communal burials in megalithic tombs\, and the other (the Battle Axe Culture) displayed more individualised burials. Distinct from these were a group of late marine hunter-gatherers (the Pitted Ware Culture). \nIn this talk\, Helena Malmström will discuss how genetic relatedness patterns can inform on burial practices\, marital patterns and social structures in these three Stone Age groups. She will also give examples of how specific archaeological contexts and isotope analyses can help in this regard. Helena looks forward to rewarding discussions on this topic. \n \nHelena Malmström is an archaeogeneticist interested in ancient DNA\, archaeology and population genomics\, Human Evolution Program\, Uppsala University (Google Scholar)
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/talks-of-the-past-open-seminar-with-helena-malmstrom/
LOCATION:Blåsenhus\, seminar room 12:010 (ground floor)\, von Kraemers allé 1\, Uppsala\, 752 36\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminars,Talks of the Past
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SUMMARY:Mini-Seminar: Models\, data\, and their limits: What can we know about the deep history of language families? with Philipp Rönchen
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nComputational methods are increasingly used to reconstruct the deep history of language families\, yet different models often produce strikingly different answers. This reflects a general challenge in the historical sciences: we must draw conclusions from fragmentary data shaped by complex processes that cannot be directly observed or experimentally repeated. \nIn this talk\, I summarise the main ideas of my PhD thesis\, which examines how computational methods can be evaluated rather than simply applied. I argue that good statistical fit to the available data is not\, on its own\, evidence of reliable historical inference\, because results depend strongly on modelling assumptions and on how we represent processes of change. I will discuss why more elaborate models do not necessarily yield more trustworthy conclusions\, and how simulation can be used to probe the robustness of our inferences and clarify what computational methods can\, and cannot\, tell us about the past. \n \nPhilipp Rönchen is a PhD candidate in general linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Philology\, Uppsala University
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/mini-seminar-models-data-and-their-limits-what-can-we-know-about-the-deep-history-of-language-families-with-philipp-ronchen/
LOCATION:Villa Lugnet\, von Kraemers allé 8\, Uppsala\, Sweden\, 75236\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Mini-Seminars,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260324T160000
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SUMMARY:Higher Seminar in Baltic Studies\, Stockholm University\, with Anthony Jakob
DESCRIPTION:The Higher Seminar in Baltic Languages with Signe Rirdance (SU) and Anthony Jakob (SCAS). The seminar is split into two sessions (with a coffee break in between):\n\n\n14:00-15:30 – Signe Rirdance (SU): “Deciphering Getzel’s hand in early Latvian: AI and I” \n16:00-17:30 – Anthony Jakob (SCAS): “Linguistic ghosts and zombies in modern Standard Lithuanian”\nLanguage: English \nNote: Please register your participation via the event registration link. \nFor more information\, contact Frederik Bissinger (frederik.bissinger@balt.su.se)
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/su-seminar-anthony-jakob-20260324/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminars
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