Abstract
In the following paper we examine the correlation between linguistic and biological variation among Tanoan-speaking pueblos in the American Southwest to test whether or not genetic and linguistic heritage have followed parallel paths of descent, in other words, whether or not language and genes have coevolved. The results of a quantitative analysis indicate that there is not a significant correlation between linguistic and biological variation in our sample of historic and ancestral Tanoan populations. Furthermore, by testing a simple isolation-by-distance model we show that linguistic and biological relationships among pueblos are not proportional to geographic proximity. Our study demonstrates the potential utility of linguistic datasets in bioarchaeological research.
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