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Reconstructing the history of residence strategies in Indo-European-speaking societies: neo-, uxori-, and virilocality.
Human biology - 1 Feb 2011
Fortunato Laura
Abstract excerpt
Linguists and archaeologists have used reconstructions of early Indo-European residence strategies to constrain hypotheses about the homeland and trajectory of dispersal of Indo-European languages; however, these reconstructions are largely based on unsystematic and a historical use of the linguistic and ethnographic evidence, coupled with substantial bias in interpretation. Here I use cross-cultural data in a...
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