A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology

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1. Story
2. Russell Gray and Fiona Jordan applied phylogenetic tree-building to Austronesian lexical data and compared the resulting branching order with the archaeological sequence of island settlement in the Pacific, reporting agreement with the rapid dispersal from Taiwan often called the express-train model. The significance for method is that two independent bodies of evidence — sound correspondences among living languages, and radiocarbon dates on pottery and settlement — were made to predict each other, which is the closest historical linguistics comes to an experimental test.
3. Knowledge
4. Bayesian phylogenetic dating of language families
5. Austronesian
6. The Austronesian expansion
7. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
8. Connections
9. Austronesian
10. The Austronesian expansion
11. Bayesian phylogenetic dating of language families
12. Taiwan
13. Trans-New Guinea
14. Malagasy
15. The Austronesian expansion
16. Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo
17. Blust's Austronesian subgrouping places the deepest divisions in Taiwan
18. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
19. Austronesian speakers move out of Taiwan
20. Lapita voyagers enter Remote Oceania
21. Malagasy
22. Austronesian
23. Taiwan
24. Dahl links Malagasy to Ma'anyan of southeastern Borneo
25. Blust's Austronesian subgrouping places the deepest divisions in Taiwan
26. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
27. Austronesian speakers move out of Taiwan
28. Lapita voyagers enter Remote Oceania
29. Austronesian speakers settle Madagascar
30. The comparative method
31. Glottochronology
32. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
33. A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
34. Phylogeography puts the Indo-European homeland in Anatolia
35. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
36. A dated phylogeny puts Sino-Tibetan at roughly seven thousand years
37. A second phylogeny puts the same family at roughly six thousand years
38. Evidence
39. Supports the agreement between the branching order of Austronesian language trees and the archaeological settlement sequence of the Pacific. 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 volume number is given from standing knowledge and the page range is omitted rather than guessed.