| Concept of post-"Palaeoasiatic" cultural merging processes in Korean Studies? | |
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| black man | Jun 20 2018, 08:45:06 PM Post #1 |
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It would be of interest to clarify concerning concepts of post-"Palaeoasiatic" cultural merging processes in Korean Studies. In literature authors associated southern not only with Chinese influence but also with mudang and relatively high levels of the influence of women on everyday public life. (By contrast, ritual specialists comparable with the mudang were said to have been males-only in northern Korea like the shamans of the Tungusic peoples.) So there must have been a period in between the heydays of "Palaeoasiatic" and those of "Sinitic" proper cultural features. This is also what y-chromosomal studies will indicate the more "Chinese" proper lineages researchers can identify: the remainder lineages will probably tend to have SNP markers in common with major Japanese lineages but only minor Chinese lineages (very old news, try out key words like "SRY465" when searching in this forum if you're interested). At the same time there is an overlap between southern Korean and northern Han mtDNA hg profiles. But the former appear to be more matrivicinal than the latter. In this sense, it would be interesting to compare Koreans with peoples at the very peripheral parts of East Asia who speak Tibeto-Burman and Tai-Kadai languages among others. As just coincidentally noticed once more while writing on "D5a2a-16266, 16092, 16164", there are certain peripheral populations which are more or less matrivicinal if not matrilocal like possibly ancient Koreans but in a rather pronounced contrast to typical Confucian Han. As I already mentioned on other occasions, the mtDNA hg profiles of the apparently more matrivicinal/matrilocal peripheral populations so far indicate a relatively moderate levels of northern East Asian genetic backgrounds. By contrast, genetics, physical anthropology and ethno-cultural studies IMO indicate by far more marked levels of North Asian influences on present-day northern Han. And the latter might not just be due to, e.g., medieval admixtures but they might already have made the earliest Han Chinese different from other ancient East Asians. (Note though, more recent trends probably altered phenotypes again as mentioned in the following threads: - "Northern Han physical anthropology according to typological approaches" - "Build of Han Chinese women" - "Average facial shape changing in East Asia?") I wonder to what extent Korean ethnologists already explored what can be found out about potential similarities between ancient and medieval Koreans and matrivicinal/matrilocal peripheral eastern Asians. Last but not least, the evidence for the former presence of populations both pre-Sinitic and pre-Tungusic at the same to the west of the Korean peninsula is growing. Most likely, many of them became Han and mixed with early Sinitic speakers whom had arrived from the west. Some of our more recent posts addressing the idea are in the following threads: - "O-002611 phylogeography" - "Dawenkou physical anthropology and genetics" - "Shang people" |
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