{"id":1492,"date":"2025-02-04T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=1492"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:06:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T11:06:54","slug":"talks-of-the-past-top-open-seminar-2nd-apr-2025-speaker-outi-vesakoski","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/event\/talks-of-the-past-top-open-seminar-2nd-apr-2025-speaker-outi-vesakoski\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar, 2nd Apr 2025: Uralic spread, Seima-Turbino and flower pots, speaker Outi Vesakoski"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abstract<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The seminal paper by Gr\u00fcnthal et al. (2022) advances a new scenario of Proto-Uralic disintegration and spread. They suggest a rapid spread of Uralic languages through Common Uralic, a dialect continuum whose breakup formed the Finno-Ugric language families. They suggest that the vector for Uralic spread was the Seima-Turbino trading network (ST), within which the Uralic languages \u200b\u200bwere used as lingua franca. The key hypothesis in the Sejma-Turbino scenario is that the trade network would have consisted of representatives of different Eurasian cultural groups for whom a common language would have been necessary. Timing of Proto-Uralic disintegration would have occurred during the ST, which was an intensive but short-lasting period about 4200-3800 years ago.<\/p>\n

In her presentation, Outi Vesakoski will summarize the assumptions this hypothesis poses and discuss them in light of new genetic and psycholinguistic studies. The talk is based on a forthcoming paper on Uralic archaeolinguistics (Vesakoski, Elina Salmela & Henny Piezonka) in the Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language, edited by Martine Robbeets and Mark Hudson.<\/p>\n

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\nMap of Uralic language speaker areas at beginning of 20th century (drawn by BEDLAN member Timo Rantanen).<\/p>\n

Related reading:<\/h4>\n

Gr\u00fcnthal, R., Heyd, V., Holopainen, S. et al. (2022). Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread,\u00a0Diachronica 39\/4: 490\u2013524<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vesakoski, O., Salmela, E. & Piezonka, H. (2025). Uralic Archaeolinguistics.<\/a> In M. Robbeets & M. Hudson (eds) Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language. (Forthcoming)<\/p>\n

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\"Outi<\/p>\n

Outi Vesakoski is an associate professor of Finnish, Finno-Ugric, and Scandinavian languages at the University of Turku, Finland.
\nShe is also a vice-director of the Human Diversity Consortium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Areas of expertise:
\nBEDLAN, Evolutionary ecology, Environmental (cultural) adaptations, Language evolution, Cultural evolution, Genetic evolution, Human past studies, Human diversity,\u00a0Finnish dialects, Lauri Kettunen, Uralic language speaker area, UraLex – Uralic basic vocabulary, UraTyp – Uralic typological database, Uralic Areal Typology, URHIA Uralic Historical Atlas,\u00a0Digitized Database of Finnish Archaeological Artefacts,\u00a0Quantitative methods,\u00a0Spatial methods,\u00a0Invasive species,\u00a0Marine biology<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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