Phylogeography puts the Indo-European homeland in Anatolia
Bouckaert and colleagues extended the Bayesian approach by modelling the geographic spread of the family as a diffusion process on the tree, and reported strongest support for an origin in Anatolia with expansion associated with agriculture. The paper drew sustained criticism from comparative linguists and archaeologists over its cognate data, its treatment of extinct languages, the geographic model's indifference to terrain and migration corridors, and the omission of the reconstructed wheeled-vehicle vocabulary that constrains the proto-language's date.
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Subjects
- Bayesian phylogenetic dating of language families · process · not located
- Anatolia · region · Türkiye
- Indo-European · concept · Europe, western and southern Asia; by later colonisation, worldwide · not located
Evidence
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Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family
Supports the reported phylogeographic inference of an Anatolian origin for Indo-European, and is cited here together with the criticism it attracted rather than as a settled result. 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. Volume number from standing knowledge; page range omitted rather than guessed.
Science · 2012 · Partly verified
Bouckaert, R. et al., Science, vol. 337 (2012)
Recorded on Bayesian phylogenetic dating of language families
- Proto-Indo-European is spoken
- Jones states the Indo-European hypothesis in Calcutta
- Hrozný identifies Hittite as an Indo-European language
- A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
- A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
- Phylogeography puts the Indo-European homeland in Anatolia
- A dated phylogeny puts Sino-Tibetan at roughly seven thousand years
- A second phylogeny puts the same family at roughly six thousand years
- A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
Related
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- A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin · 2023
- A dated phylogeny puts Sino-Tibetan at roughly seven thousand years · 2019
- A second phylogeny puts the same family at roughly six thousand years · 2019
- A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic · 2003
- A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology · 2000
- Hrozný identifies Hittite as an Indo-European language · 1915
- Jones states the Indo-European hypothesis in Calcutta · 1786-02-02
- Proto-Indo-European is spoken · ~3000 BCE