Theories of how humans came to be so ecologically dominant increasingly centre on the
adaptive abilities of human culture and its capacity for cumulative change and high-fidelity …

Horses revolutionized human history with fast mobility. However, the timeline between their
domestication and their widespread integration as a means of transport remains …

The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300 bc across the steppes north
of the Black and Caspian Seas, and by 3000 bc it reached its maximal extent, ranging from …

Computational and human perception are often considered separate approaches for
studying sound changes over time; few works have touched on the intersection of both. To …

This study re-examines the linguistic phylogeny of the South Caucasian linguistic family (aka
the Kartvelian linguistic family) and attempts to identify its Urheimat. We apply Bayesian …

Abstract The Perceived Affective Qualities (PAQs) outlined in the ISO/TS 12913-2: 2018
standard have been translated into many languages and are referred to as a global …

Understanding how languages change is important not only for the reconstruction of
protolanguages and for estimating diversification dates (ie the dates when languages split) …

We introduce a sizable (n= 34) whole-genome dataset on Armenians, a population
inhabiting the region in West Asia known as the Armenian highlands. Equipped with this …

Divergence-time estimation is one of the most important endeavors in historical linguistics.
Its importance is matched only by its difficulty. As Bayesian methods of divergence-time …

We introduce a method for investigating sound change using audio proxies and
interpolation between them. Using this method leads us to consider the possible trajectories …