Fig. 4: Integration of linguistic, agricultural and genetic expansions in Northeast Asia. | Nature

Fig. 4: Integration of linguistic, agricultural and genetic expansions in Northeast Asia.

From: Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages

Fig. 4

Amur ancestry is marked in red, Yellow River ancestry in green and Jomon ancestry in blue. The red arrows show the eastward migrations of millet farmers in the Neolithic, bringing Koreanic and Tungusic languages to the indicated regions. The green arrows mark the integration of rice agriculture in the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age, bringing the Japonic language over Korea to Japan.

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