Heinz-Murray 2E.book

28 Part I: Land and Language yellow in their dried-out fields, and then wither away. If the monsoons are overgenerous, the water ...

Chapter 1 Asia as Cultured Space 29 Origins of Rice Cultivation We know that rice originated someplace in monsoon Asia, but its ...

30 Part I: Land and Language first developed the Neolithic technological and economic “package” that fueled all later population ...

Chapter 1 Asia as Cultured Space 31 Swidden. The swidden plot often looks like a haphazard field of grain sown on a hillside ami ...

32 Part I: Land and Language after a few years, that it is easier to move than to keep working harder for less return in the sam ...

Chapter 1 Asia as Cultured Space 33 perature; and over the long term governs the formation of a plough pan that prevents nutrien ...

34 Part I: Land and Language right to make certain decisions with implications for the entire watershed, such as whether to open ...

Chapter 1 Asia as Cultured Space 35 But the announcement of a hominid find at Dragon Bone Hill, now better known as Zhoukoudian ...

36 Part I: Land and Language small early population in East Africa that replaced H. erectus. One type of DNA known as mitochondr ...

Chapter 1 Asia as Cultured Space 37 (^2) In 1859 the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace noted distinct differences in ecozones bet ...

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41 f any evidence were needed of Asia’s tremendous diversity, you need look no further than language. There are over 2,000 disti ...

42 Part I: Land and Language On the other hand, Lao and Thai are mutually understandable and are therefore technically dialects, ...

Chapter 2 Tongues, Texts, and Scripts 43 ity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than can possibly have been p ...

44 Part I: Land and Language words were clearly cognates. If English “two” is also a cognate, we have to account for two sound s ...

Chapter 2 Tongues, Texts, and Scripts 45 languages along with the actual automobile. Languages do “borrow” words extravagantly ( ...

46 Part I: Land and Language encountered a civilization in decline (the “empty cities” of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro; see chapter ...

Chapter 2 Tongues, Texts, and Scripts 47 East Asian Homelands The great success of reconstructing the Indo-European language fam ...