Chapter 8
Figure 1.The relative position of early Hmong-Mien (Miáo-Yáo) tribes and early Kradai (T’ai) tribes (reproduced from Forrest 1948: 129)
Figure 2.The geographical distribution of Austroasiatic language communities
Figure 3.The family tree of Austroasiatic (Diffloth 2012). Unlike the Khasi-Aslian branch, the internal phylogeny of the Munda branch has not been established
Figure 4.The geographical ranges for the possible domestication of (A) ghaiyā or upland rice, (B) wet indica rice and (C) the japonica cultivar (adapted from Londo et al. 2006)
Figure 5.The region of overlap of the geographical ranges of megafaunal species for which Proto-Austroasiatic etyma are reconstructible
Figure 6.The 2012 Benares recension of Stanley Starosta’s 2001 Périgueux East Asian linguistic phylum (Starosta 2005, van Driem 2014b).
Figure 7.After the last glacial maximum, the Y chromosomal haplogroup O (M175) split into the subclades O1 (F265, M1354) and O2 (M122).
Figure 8.A male-biased linguistic intrusion introduced both Austroasiatic language and a paternal lineage, haplogroup O1b1a1a (M95), into the indigenous population of the Choṭā Nāgpur
Figure 9.Branching of the paternal lineage O into new subclades.