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The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Linguistic, Dental, and Genetic Evidence [and Comments and Reply]
Abstract
The classification of the indigenous languages of the Americas by Greenberg distinguishes three stocks, Amerind, Na-Dene, and Aleut-Eskimo. The first of these covers almost all of the New World. The second consists of Na-Dene as defined by Sapir and, outside of recent. Athapaskan extensions in California and the American Southwest, is found in southern Alaska and northwestern Canada. The third, Aleut-Eskimo, is the easternmost branch of the Eurasiatic language family located in northern Asia and Europe. These three linguistic stocks are found to agree well with the three dental groups proposed by Turner and the genetic divisions of the New World population advanced by Zegura. The three groups are hypothesized as representing the settlement of the New World by successive migrations from Asia. The earliest is in all probability the Amerind; the relative priority of Na-Dene to Aleut-Eskimo is less certain. The evidence regarding the absolute chronology of these proposed migrations is discussed.
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- Greenberg, J. H., Turner, C. G., Zegura, S. L., Campbell, L., Fox, J. A., Laughlin, W. S., Weiss, K. M., & Woolford, E.
- Venue
- Current Anthropology
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- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1986-12
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- 27
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 477-497
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- 0011-3204 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5382
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- W2256839430
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- 493
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- 1.47
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- closed
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