Reconstructive efforts of proto-languages have inferred historic culture for families other than PIE
the verdict
SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
confidence 88/100
Scholars successfully apply linguistic paleontology and comparative methods to reconstruct the historic culture, agriculture, and social organization of language families other than Proto-Indo-European, such as Transeurasian, Austronesian, and Tibeto-Burman.
Evidence for · 3
The homelands of the individual Transeurasian proto-languages
2020 · cited by 118
The study uses cultural reconstruction and linguistic paleontology to determine that speakers of individual Transeurasian proto-languages were originally familiar with millet agriculture.
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Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies
2010 · cited by 64
The study reconstructs ancestral kinship patterns and marital residence, such as uxorilocality in Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, using language trees for language families including Austronesian.
Proto-Tibeto-Burman Grain Crops
2011 · cited by 59
The study examines the agricultural vocabulary and grain crops of Proto-Tibeto-Burman to infer the historic culture and environment of that language family.