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<body>Dear Colleagues,<div><br /></div><div>Please see the below announcement for a workshop on "bottom-up" reconstruction of TB material culture targeting mid-level subgroups to be co-organized by Gwendolyn Hyslop, Yankee Modi and Mark W Post at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics at ANU in Canberra next year. Note that ICHL24 takes place between July 1-5, 2019, directly following a week of ICSTLL/HLS in Sydney. We invite submissions which, unfortunately, need to be in very early and very quickly - October 12!! Please see below for further details and instructions.</div><div><br /></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Mark</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div id="xd12320ad46124df58f7ba88b33a2dfb6"><div lang="EN-AU" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Workshop Title:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bottom up and archaeobotanical approaches to reconstructable Tibeto-Burman material culture<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Description:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Historical linguistic methods can yield useful insights regarding population prehistories. For example, Mallory (1991) argues that we can attribute stockbreeding to speakers of Proto-Indo-European based in part on the fact that forms for ‘sheep’, ‘cattle’, ‘goat’ and ‘pig’ can be reconstructed to the proto-language. In the Austronesian world, Blust (1995) reconstructs words for ‘typhoon’ and ‘snow; ice; frost’ for Proto-Austronesian, suggesting that the people who spoke the proto language lived in an environment where there were typhoons and snow, ice or frost (fitting the picture for Taiwan). A considerable amount can also be inferred about Proto-Austronesian speakers’ economy. For instance, Blust (1995) shows that this culture was most likely familiar with rice agriculture, based on his reconstruction of words for ‘paddy’, ‘harvested rice’ and ‘cooked rice’. In addition, Blust also reconstructs exploitation of several millet species, as well as root crops (such as wild taro), tree crops, domesticated animals, means by which animals were captured (hunting and fishing), and aspects of food preparation, tools and implements, settlements and housing, clothing, music, social organisation, disease and death, and the spirit world. The aim in this workshop is to apply these methods to the Tibeto-Burman-speaking world, using a “bottom-up” approach which focuses on the subgroup level. <br /><br />There has been some work in this area within Tibeto-Burman. Bradley (1997), for example, argues that eight different crops (rice, panicum millet, foxtail millet, sorghum, buckwheat, barley, wheat, Job’s tears) reconstruct to Proto Burmic, spoken perhaps four thousand years ago. At the same time, this reconstruction could be read as conflicting with archaeobotanical findings which suggest that not all these crops would have been in use at the same time at that time depth (e.g. D’Alpoim-Guedes et al. 2014). Recent advances in the fields of archaeobotany and language documentation now mean that we can take new data from previously under-studied subgroups, and by examining what might reconstruct at lower and more confident levels, develop a more nuanced and empirically better-supported account of Tibeto-Burman pre-history. <br /><br />This workshop this aims to advance hypotheses concerning linguistically reconstructable aspects of early Tibeto-Burman material culture and environmental economy by focusing closely on the subgroup level. This workshop welcomes all recontributions that are aimed at reconstructing lexicon at the subgroup level, dealing with flora, fauna, productive economy (agriculture, hunting, foraging, artefacts and their construction) and any other features that will contribute to a nuanced characterisation of early Tibeto-Burman speaking cultures. <br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">References</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-indent:-24.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Blust, Robert. 1995. The Prehistory of the Austronesian-Speaking Peoples: A View from Language. Journal of World Prehistory 9(4): 453–510.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-indent:-24.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bradley, David. 1997. What Did They Eat? Grain Crops in the Burmic Groups. Mon-Khmer Studies 27: 161–70.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-indent:-24.1pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade, Hongliang Lu, Yongxian Li, Robert N. Spengler, Xiaohong Wu, and Mark S. Aldenderfer. 2014 Moving Agriculture onto the Tibetan Plateau:
The Archaeobotanical Evidence. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 6 (3): 255–69. doi:10.1007/s12520-013-0153-4.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Hyslop, Gwendolyn. 2015. Emergent insights into Proto-East-Bodish agricultural economy. In eds. Mark W Post, Stephen Morey, and Scott DeLancey
<i>Language and culture in Northeast India: In honor of Robbins Burling</i>, 276-288. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.<b><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-indent:-24.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mallory, J. 1991. In Search of the Indo-Europeans : Language, Archaeology and Myth. London: Thames and Hudson.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Call for papers:<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We invite abstracts that deal with data from low level sub-groups within Tibeto-Burman and their resultant reconstructions. We are especially interested in papers that will address the reconstruction of archaeobotanical
knowledge (such as grains and their cultivation processes) but also welcome papers that address other topics, such as environment, farming practices, or other aspects of tangible and intangible culture. Accepted participants will be allotted 20 minutes to
present and 10 minutes allocated for discussion, including commentary from non-Linguistic specialists of other fields. Abstracts should be no more than one page with 12pt font, and can include a second page for references. For more details about the conference
and workshop, please refer to: <a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/workshops/">
http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/workshops/</a>. Abstracts may be submitted here:
<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Y_rKCp8AJQtGQmEGsPC0N3?domain=app.smartsheet.com">
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/d87118a698694681ab0d6520e6584765</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>