Wednesday 9th January
Chair: Mark Hudson
08.30 – 09.00 Registration
09.00 – 09.15 Welcome by Director Russell Gray
09.15 – 10.00 It takes three to tandem: The eurasia3angle project
Martine Robbeets, Tao Li, Mark Hudson, Nataliia Neshcheret, Sander Savelyev, Chao Ning, Chuanchua Wang & Choongwon Jeong
10.00 – 10.45 The Xiongnu and their (possible) descendants: combining evidence from linguistics and genetics
Alexander Savelyev & Choongwon Jeong
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.00 Tracing the origin and expansion of the Turkic and Hunnic confederations
Pavel Flegontov, Leonid A. Vyazov & Alexei Kassian
12.00 – 12.45 Diarying on the eastern fringes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe
Christina Warinner, Jessica Hendy, Linyuan Fan, Zandra Fagernäs, Yinqiu Cui and Martine Robbeets
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
Chair: Sander Savelyev
13.45 – 14.30 In search for common features in spatial distribution of genetic and linguistic traits of Altaic
speaking populations
Oleg Balanovsky, Anna Dybo, Alexander Kozintsev & Evgenia Korovina
14.30 – 15.15 Bioarchaeological perspective on the expansion of Transeurasian languages in Northeast China
Yinqiu Cui & Quanchao Zhang
15.15 – 16.00 Neolithic contact of populations in Northeast Asia
Chao Ning & Hai Zhang
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.15 Millets, Pigs, Dogs and Permanent settlement: how many parallel pathways to sedentism across northern China?
Dorian Fuller, Gregor Larson, Yijie Zhuang
17.15 – 18.00 Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology
of textile production
Sarah Nelson, Irina Zhushikhovskaya, Tao Li, Mark Hudson & Martine Robbeets
Thursday 10th January
Chair: Sander Savelyev
09.00 – 09.45 The homeland of proto-Tungusic languages inferred from contemporary words and ancient
genomes
Chuan-Chao Wang & Martine Robbeets
09.45 – 10.30 Tracing the dispersal route of millet agriculture to the Russian Far East
Tao Li, Chao Ning, Mark Hudson, Irina Zhushckikhovskaya & Martine Robbeets
10.30 – 11.15 The relationship between Koreanic and Japanic Languages in prehistory and ancient history: Historical texts
and archaeological data revisited
Kim Jangsuk & Jinho Park
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break
11.45 – 12.15 Multidisciplinary approach for tracing the intertangle spread of rice and millet in Northeast Asia
Shinya Shoda & Masahiko Kumagai
12.15 – 13.00 The dual structure hypothesis after 30 years
Shigeki Nakagome, Mark Hudson & John Whitman
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
13.45 Group picture
Chair: Tao Li
14.00 – 14.45 What is the Jomon?
Mark Hudson, Choongwon Jeong & Martine Robbeets
14.45 – 15.30 The expansion of anatomical modern humans and the spread of Japonic language family
Kazuo Miyamoto & Hiroki Oota
15.30 – 16.15 The spread of agriculture through the Japanese Islands
Gina Barnes, Elisabeth de Boer & Melinda Yang
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee Break
16.45 – 17.30 Origins of Yaponesians from genetic and linguistic viewpoints
Naruya Saitou & Mitsuaki Endo
17.30 – 18.15 Relationship between Japanese and Transeurasian from genetics and linguistics
Hideaki Kanzawa Kiriyama & Shinjiro Kazama
Friday, 11th January
Chair: Chao Ning
09.00 – 09.45 Investigating the origin of Transeurasian languages: common ancestry hypothesis or language
contact theory.
Anahit Hovhannisyan & Michael St. Clair
09.45 – 10.30 Peopling in Northern Eurasian forests: Merging archaeological, genetic-geographic and linguistic
evidence in historical dynamics of socio-ecological system
Junzo Uchiyama, Alexander Savelyev & Christopher Gillam
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.45 The East Asian linguistic phylum: A reconstruction based on language and genes with implications
for the ethnolinguistic prehistory of Japan and Transeurasian
George van Driem & Gyaneshwer Chaubey
11.45 – 12.00 Wrap-up
Martine Robbeets
Transeurasian millets and beans, languages and genes