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Accepted Paper:
Climate change and the odyssey of Japanese
Martine Robbeets
(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
Paper short abstract:
Northeast Asia is known for its versatile climate. This paper will explore how climate change pushed the spread of farming along with the Transeurasian languages (i.e. Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic) across time and space. It will focus on the ancestor of Japonic in particular.
Paper long abstract:
Northeast Asia is known for its versatile climate. Adapting to different climatic conditions, agriculture from the Neolithic onwards was supplemented by a variety of subsistence strategies such as hunting, gathering, fishing and eventually, herding. This paper will explore how climate fluctuations may have pushed the spread of farming along with the Transeurasian (i.e. Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic) languages in time and space. It will focus on how climate change impacted the ancestor of the Japonic languages in particular, from the origins of millet agriculture in Northeast China, associated with Proto-Transeurasian around 7000 BC and Proto-Japano-Koreanic around 5000 BC to the addition of rice agriculture in the Shandong-Liaodong area, associated with Proto-Austronesian around 3000 BC over the dispersal of the agricultural package, associated with Proto-Japonic, to the Korean Peninsula around 1500 BC and to Northern Kyushu around 900 BC (Hudson and Robbeets 2020, Robbeets et al. 2021).