Bayesian phylogeography has been used in historical linguistics to reconstruct homelands
and expansions of language families, but the reliability of these reconstructions has remained …

Phylogenetic trees are a central tool for studying language evolution and have wide implications
for understanding cultural evolution as a whole. For example, they have been the basis …

When speakers of different languages interact, they are likely to influence each other: contact
leaves traces in the linguistic record, which in turn can reveal geographical areas of past …

{Despite a well-characterized archaeological record, the genetics of the people who inhabit
the Arctic have been unexplored. Raghavan et al. sequenced ancient and modern genomes …

When studying the spatial diffusion of a phenomenon, we often know its geographic distribution
at one or more snapshots in time, while the complete history of the diffusion process is …

Bayesian phylogeography aims to reconstruct migrations in evolutionary processes. This
methodological framework has been used for the reconstruction of homelands and historical …

Dated language phylogenies have wide applications in historical and anthropological
research. However, the quality of such applications depends on adequate models of language …

There are two principled ways to approach the detection and description of a linguistic area:
bottom-up and top-down [Muysken, 2008, Muysken et al., 2014]. The starting point for the …

Languages constantly change, but they also keep traces of the past. We can use these traces
to study human history. How have languages changed over thousands of years? Where …

Spatial clustering finds groups of neighbouring objects with similar attributes, revealing patterns
of spatial interaction and influence. However, not all similarities in spatial data are due to …