{"title":"The Southeast Asian prehistoric house: a correlation between archaeology and linguistics","authors":"C. F. W. Higham, M. J. Alves","doi":"10.1007/s41826-025-00107-0","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Austroasiatic languages are spoken from Southeast Asia to central India, and their divergences evidence a considerable passage of time since speakers of the proto language spread south from the lower Yangtze region. Proto-Austroasiatic etyma for the house and its component parts have raised the possibility of their validation through matching archaeological data. It is found that there is a correlation between linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence that involved the expansion of Neolithic rice farmers who brought with them a cultural package of agriculture, pottery, domesticated animals and housing structures, and who integrated with the indigenous hunter gatherer communities they encountered.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93733,"journal":{"name":"Asian archaeology","volume":"9 1","pages":"109 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41826-025-00107-0.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asian archaeology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41826-025-00107-0","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Austroasiatic languages are spoken from Southeast Asia to central India, and their divergences evidence a considerable passage of time since speakers of the proto language spread south from the lower Yangtze region. Proto-Austroasiatic etyma for the house and its component parts have raised the possibility of their validation through matching archaeological data. It is found that there is a correlation between linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence that involved the expansion of Neolithic rice farmers who brought with them a cultural package of agriculture, pottery, domesticated animals and housing structures, and who integrated with the indigenous hunter gatherer communities they encountered.
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