tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post9097451165261220168..comments2024-03-28T21:52:52.100-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Migration From California To The Great Basin ca. 1000 CEAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-82140945249786929502013-04-03T16:34:36.697-06:002013-04-03T16:34:36.697-06:00Possible. But in the region where most Indonesian...Possible. But in the region where most Indonesian contact occurred the languages are non-Pama-Nyungan. The original article I read claimed Pama-Nyungan had spread from the southeast but some more recent research did suggest that Pama-Nyungan was a branch of non-Pama-Nyungan. So the jury is still out. I don't know if you've seen the abstract and data from the link Kristiina provided at Maju's blog: <br /><br />http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618211002278<br /><br />The map has data from just four regions but that doubles the information we previously had. The greatest diversity of haplogroups, as we would expect, is in the northwest. But we can see that Australian prehistory was a dynamic process, not static. terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-64315403167143426972013-04-03T09:21:58.494-06:002013-04-03T09:21:58.494-06:00Although in Australia, there is at least circumsta...Although in Australia, there is at least circumstantial evidence that rather than climate, the shift was due to early contact with Indonesians, which a new genetic study seems to support and which is also supported by the concentration of lingustic diversity among Australian aboriginals on the North Coast. Pama-Nyugan could have spread with cultural advantages obtained from this contact, if there was any, rather than being climate driven.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-60279140769589280712013-04-02T19:16:34.829-06:002013-04-02T19:16:34.829-06:00"the notion that North American prehistory wa..."the notion that North American prehistory was relatively static is increasingly being discredited as we learn more". <br /><br />The same apparently holds for Australia as well. Some years ago I was surprised to learn that the Pama-Nyungan languages, spoken over virtually the whole of Australia, began diversifying just 10,000 years ago. Yet people have populated almost all of Australia for something like 50,000 years. The claim was that people had expanded back into the desert following a particularly arid period. Climate again, just as for the Great Basin. terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.com