Linguistic Reconstruction and Historical Ecology in the North Pacific Rim
Will be published approx. on 9. November 2026
352 pages
E-Book
978-1-040-59848-1 (ISBN)
Description
Linguistic Reconstruction and Historical Ecology in the North Pacific Rim explores human-environmental interactions in the Northern Pacific Rim over the last 10,000 years. It introduces students and researchers to linguistic methods for reconstructing how humans have managed and modified landscapes over millennia. The chapters cover a variety of temporal and geographical ranges, including the coastal areas on both sides of the Pacific from Neolithic to medieval times.
This book engages a multitude of Indigenous languages, such as Sinitic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, Koreanic, Japonic, Ainuic, Amuric, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Yukaghiric, Eskaleut, Na-Dene and Salishan languages. As such, archaeolinguistics is showcased as a truly new frontier in Historical Ecology, bridging the natural and social sciences. The volume adds linguistics to a wide array of windows into the ecological past.
This volume is ideal for advanced students and researchers in archaeology, anthropology, genetics, ecology, and geography.
This book engages a multitude of Indigenous languages, such as Sinitic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, Koreanic, Japonic, Ainuic, Amuric, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Yukaghiric, Eskaleut, Na-Dene and Salishan languages. As such, archaeolinguistics is showcased as a truly new frontier in Historical Ecology, bridging the natural and social sciences. The volume adds linguistics to a wide array of windows into the ecological past.
This volume is ideal for advanced students and researchers in archaeology, anthropology, genetics, ecology, and geography.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
75 Tables, black and white; 34 Halftones, black and white; 34 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-040-59848-1 (9781040598481)
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Martine Robbeets | Martijn Knapen
Linguistic Reconstruction and Historical Ecology in the North Pacific Rim
Book
approx. 11/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€191.50
Not yet published
Persons
Prof. Dr. habil Martine Robbeets is the head of the Language and the Anthropocene Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena and Honorary Professor of General and Comparative linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. She holds a PhD in Comparative Linguistics from the University of Leiden and a Habilitation in Linguistic Typology from the University of Mainz. She wrote several monographs and edited various volumes, among which Routledge's Critical Concepts in Linguistics on "the Transeurasian Languages", "The Oxford Guide to Transeurasian Languages" and "The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language".
Martijn Knapen is a doctoral researcher in the Language and the Anthropocene research group at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. He holds an MA in Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities from the University of Helsinki. He is a linguist specializing in three Indigenous linguistic lineages of Northeast Asia: Nivkh (or Amuric), Tungusic and Ainu. His ongoing research focuses on the interactions of their speakers among themselves and their interrelations with their local landscapes and seascapes.
Martijn Knapen is a doctoral researcher in the Language and the Anthropocene research group at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. He holds an MA in Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities from the University of Helsinki. He is a linguist specializing in three Indigenous linguistic lineages of Northeast Asia: Nivkh (or Amuric), Tungusic and Ainu. His ongoing research focuses on the interactions of their speakers among themselves and their interrelations with their local landscapes and seascapes.
Content
Linguistic Reconstruction and Historical Ecology: An Introduction Part I. Landscape transformation Chapter 1. Language, Species, and Culture: Reflections from Historical Ecology Chapter 2. The Vocabulary of Reindeer Herding in Dolgan within the Context of Dolgan -Evenki Contact Chapter 3. Northern Pacific Rim Substratum Interference in Japonic, Koreanic and Tungusic Part II. Landscape stratigraphy Chapter 4. New Linguistic Evidence for the Northern Origin of the Southern Dene/Athabaskan Languages Chapter 5. Ecological Lexical Borrowings between Japano-Koreanic and Sinitic on the Southern Edge of the North Pacific Rim Chapter 6. Paleoecology, Biogeographic Adaptation and the Development of Proto-Aleut and Dene during the Neoglacial and Later Periods Chapter 7. The role of climate change in Mid-Holocene migrations and language spreads from Asia into North America Chapter 8. Ecological Vocabulary in Bella Coola: Evidence for Old Trade and Migration Routes, Lexical Copying and Diffusion in the Pacific Northwest Part III. Traditional ecological knowledge Chapter 9. Ethnobotany on Sakhalin: The History and Structure of Nivkh, Uilta and Ainu Taxonyms and Taxonomies Chapter 10. Ethnolinguistic Aspects of Birch Trees in Tungusic and Beyond Chapter 11. Yukaghir 'Mammoth' in North Siberian Contexts
