History and the testimony of language

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History and the Testimony of Language
2010, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: History and the Testimony of Language
History and the Testimony of Language
2010, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: History and the testimony of language
History and the testimony of language
2010, 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
417/.7096
Library of Congress
P35.5.A35 E47 2010, P35.5.A35E47 2010, D16.135 .E57 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24011274M
ISBN 13
9780520262041, 9780520262058
LCCN
2010001040
OCLC/WorldCat
498113283

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