A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic

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1. Story
2. Gray and Atkinson applied Bayesian phylogenetic inference with a relaxed molecular-clock model to Indo-European cognate data and obtained a root age of roughly eight to ten thousand years, consistent with the hypothesis that the family spread with the expansion of farming out of Anatolia rather than with steppe pastoralists in the fourth millennium BCE. The result put a quantitative method behind a hypothesis that comparative linguists had largely rejected, and opened a dispute that is still running. Critics objected to the cognate coding, the calibration priors and the treatment of borrowing.
3. Knowledge
4. Bayesian phylogenetic dating of language families
5. Proto-Indo-European
6. Anatolia
7. A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
8. Connections
9. Bayesian phylogenetic dating of language families
10. Anatolia
11. Proto-Indo-European
12. The comparative method
13. Glottochronology
14. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
15. A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
16. Phylogeography puts the Indo-European homeland in Anatolia
17. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
18. A dated phylogeny puts Sino-Tibetan at roughly seven thousand years
19. A second phylogeny puts the same family at roughly six thousand years
20. Proto-Indo-European
21. Hattusa (Boğazkale)
22. A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
23. Phylogeography puts the Indo-European homeland in Anatolia
24. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
25. Indo-European
26. The comparative method
27. Anatolia
28. The Pontic–Caspian steppe
29. Saussure posits consonants no language attests
30. Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
31. Proto-Indo-European is spoken
32. A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
33. Ancient DNA finds a mass movement from the steppe into Europe
34. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
35. Evidence
36. Supports the reported Bayesian root-age estimate for Indo-European of roughly eight to ten thousand years and its use in favour of the Anatolian hypothesis. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. The age is given as a range from standing knowledge of the reported result; the paper's own credible interval is not quoted, and the page range is omitted rather than guessed.