History and the testimony of language

History and the testimony of language
Christopher Ehret, Christopher ...
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History and the testimony of language
2011, University of California Press
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Table of Contents

Methods and myths
Writing history from linguistic evidence
Historical inference from transformations in the vocabularies of culture
Historical inference from word borrowing
Linguistic dating
History in the Sahara : society and economy in the early Holocene
Social transformation in the Horn of Africa, 500 BCE to 500 CE
Recovering the history of extinct societies : a case study from East Africa
Cultural diffusion in the Atlantic age : American crops in Eastern Africa.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Berkeley

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
907.2
Library of Congress
D16.135 .E57 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24478319M
ISBN 13
9780520262041, 9780520262058
LCCN
2010001040

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