Special collection Transeurasian millets and beans, words and genes Ed. by Martine Robbeets & Chuan-Chao Wang Dedicated to the memory of Sarah Milledge Nelson (November 29, 1931- April 27, 2020) East Asian archaeologist, feminist, path-breaker, role model and loyal friend Table of contents 1 About millets and beans, words and genes Martine Robbeets & Chuan-Chao Wang 2 Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology of textile production Sarah Nelson, Irina Zhushchikhovskaya, Tao Li, Mark Hudson and Martine Robbeets 3 Bioarchaeological perspective on the expansion of Transeurasian languages in the Neolithic Amur River Basin Yinqiu Cui, Fan Zhang, Pengcheng Ma, Linyuan Fan, Chao Ning, Quanchao Zhang, Wei Zhang, Lixin Wang & Martine Robbeets 4 The Xiongnu and the Huns, the Rourans and the Avars: An interdisciplinary view on the early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West Alexander Savelyev & Choongwon Jeong 5 The homeland of proto-Tungusic inferred from contemporary words and ancient genomes Chuan-Chao Wang & Martine Robbeets 6. Millet vs rice: an evaluation of the farming/language dispersal hypothesis in the Korean context Jangsuk Kim & Jinho Park 7 The evolving Japanese: the dual structure hypothesis at 30 Mark Hudson, Shigeki Nakagome & John Whitman 8 Japan considered from the hypothesis of farmer/language spread Elisabeth de Boer, Melinda Yang, Aileen Kawagoe & Gina L. Barnes 9 Munda languages are father tongues, but Japanese and Korean are not Gyaneshwer Chaubey & George van Driem 10 Population dynamics in Northern Eurasian forests: Merging archaeological, genetic and linguistic evidence of distant but common cultural trajectories Junzo Uchiyama, J. Christopher Gillam, Alexander Savelyev & Ning Chao 11 Some concluding remarks Peter Bellwood