Uralic spread, Seima-Turbino and flower pots
- Datum: 2 april 2025, kl. 15.15–16.30
- Plats: Blåsenhus, Blåsenhus/lärosal 13:028
- Typ: Föreläsning
- Föreläsare: Outi Vesakoski, Human Diversity Consortium, University of Turku
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- Arrangör: Center for the Human Past (CHP)
- Kontaktperson: Marzena Norling
- Telefon: 0184710000
Talks of the Past (ToP) seminarier är öppna för alla intresserade av tvärvetenskaplig forskning inom områdena paleogenetik, arkeologi och lingvistik. Det är en serie seminarier som äger rum den första onsdagen i varje månad och följs av en diskussion och en fika. Seminarierna hålls på engelska.
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The seminal paper by Grünthal et al. (2022) advances a new scenario of Proto-Uralic disintegration and spread. They suggest a rapid spread of Uralic languages through Common Uralic, a dialect continuum whose breakup formed the Finno-Ugric language families. They suggest that the vector for Uralic spread was the Seima-Turbino trading network (ST), within which the Uralic languages were used as lingua franca. The key hypothesis in the Seima-Turbino scenario is that the trade network would have consisted of representatives of different Eurasian cultural groups for whom a common language would have been necessary. Timing of Proto-Uralic disintegration would have occurred during the ST, which was an intensive but short-lasting period about 4200-3800 years ago.
In her presentation, Outi Vesakoski will summarize this hypothesis's assumptions and discuss them in light of new genetic and phylolinguistic studies. The talk is based on the forthcoming paper on Uralic archaeolinguistics (Vesakoski, Elina Salmela & Henny Piezonka) in the Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language, edited by Martine Robbeets and Mark Hudson.