Rasmus Bjørn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1506767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rasmus Bjørn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rasmus |
| FAMILY NAME | Bjørn |
| SIGNATURE | BJØRN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2861-5755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Maritime networks as a vector for early farming/language dispersals
Maritime networks have been proposed as a mechanism for early agricultural and, by extension, language dispersals in several coastal and island regions. In Island Southeast Asia, such networks have sometimes been discussed as an alternative to the farming/language dispersal hypothesis. However, the relationships between Neolithic maritime networks and maritime economies are poorly known. Here, we summarise published information for three regions …
The Cotton Road
Cotton is one of the most culturally significant crops in Central Asia today, and it has a complex history, long predating the collective-labour and intensive-irrigation systems of the Soviet period. In this paper, we explore the ancient history of cotton cultivation in Central Asia. We aim to understand when cotton cultivation switched from low-investment to intensive large-scale agriculture and to theorise about the dispersal routes, type of co…
Twenty-first-century light over the Indo-European homeland
The reviewed volumes represent the past and future of triangulating human prehistory. Both works address the integration of the knowledge embedded in the Indo-European group of languages into the interpretation of archaeological and genetic data, but approach this very differently. By enlisting the expertise of scholars from the three different fields, with 22 contributions from more than 40 scholars from more than 10 different countries, The Ind…
Indo-European loanwords and exchange in Bronze Age Central and East Asia
Loanword analysis is a unique contribution of historical linguistics to our understanding of prehistoric cultural interfaces. As language reflects the lives of its speakers, the substantiation of loanwords draws on the composite evidence from linguistic as well as auxiliary data from archaeology and genetics through triangulation. The Bronze Age of Central Asia is in principle linguistically mute, but a host of recent independent observations tha…
The lexicon of an Old European Afro-Asiatic language. Evidence from early loanwords in Proto-Indo-European
The study examines the archaeolinguistic implications of Semitoid loanwords in Proto-Indo-European. Contact linguistics offer a unique opportunity to calibrate speech communities in relation to each other, but the Steppe hypothesis of Indo-European does not contain a concise explanation of the immutable similarities in primarily Neolithic vocabulary shared with Southwest Asian speech communities. The study introduces a baseline of 21 pivotal item…
Pronouns and Particles
This article scrutinizes three types of pronouns that have played a central role in the Indo-Uralic question. While proponents of the cognacy hypothesis have pointed to the immediate likeness of the reconstructed pronominal roots in both proto-languages, the skeptical view holds that it may be ascribed to chance and isolated cases of borrowing. Common to most treatments of the pronominal stock, however, is the rather limited perspective afforded …
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Pronouns and Particles
This article scrutinizes three types of pronouns that have played a central role in the Indo-Uralic question. While proponents of the cognacy hypothesis have pointed to the immediate likeness of the reconstructed pronominal roots in both proto-languages, the skeptical view holds that it may be ascribed to chance and isolated cases of borrowing. Common to most treatments of the pronominal stock, however, is the rather limited perspective afforded …
The lexicon of an Old European Afro-Asiatic language. Evidence from early loanwords in Proto-Indo-European
The study examines the archaeolinguistic implications of Semitoid loanwords in Proto-Indo-European. Contact linguistics offer a unique opportunity to calibrate speech communities in relation to each other, but the Steppe hypothesis of Indo-European does not contain a concise explanation of the immutable similarities in primarily Neolithic vocabulary shared with Southwest Asian speech communities. The study introduces a baseline of 21 pivotal item…
Indo-European loanwords and exchange in Bronze Age Central and East Asia
Loanword analysis is a unique contribution of historical linguistics to our understanding of prehistoric cultural interfaces. As language reflects the lives of its speakers, the substantiation of loanwords draws on the composite evidence from linguistic as well as auxiliary data from archaeology and genetics through triangulation. The Bronze Age of Central Asia is in principle linguistically mute, but a host of recent independent observations tha…
The Cotton Road
Cotton is one of the most culturally significant crops in Central Asia today, and it has a complex history, long predating the collective-labour and intensive-irrigation systems of the Soviet period. In this paper, we explore the ancient history of cotton cultivation in Central Asia. We aim to understand when cotton cultivation switched from low-investment to intensive large-scale agriculture and to theorise about the dispersal routes, type of co…
Twenty-first-century light over the Indo-European homeland
The reviewed volumes represent the past and future of triangulating human prehistory. Both works address the integration of the knowledge embedded in the Indo-European group of languages into the interpretation of archaeological and genetic data, but approach this very differently. By enlisting the expertise of scholars from the three different fields, with 22 contributions from more than 40 scholars from more than 10 different countries, The Ind…
Maritime networks as a vector for early farming/language dispersals
Maritime networks have been proposed as a mechanism for early agricultural and, by extension, language dispersals in several coastal and island regions. In Island Southeast Asia, such networks have sometimes been discussed as an alternative to the farming/language dispersal hypothesis. However, the relationships between Neolithic maritime networks and maritime economies are poorly known. Here, we summarise published information for three regions …
History (4 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Linguistics and Cultural Studies (3 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Loanword (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)