| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 386 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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[Oxford linguistics] |
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Studies in the evolution of language ; 12 |
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Oxford linguistics.
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Studies in the evolution of language ; 12.
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| Contents |
Introduction : perspectives on the evolution of language in Africa / Chris Knight -- Earliest personal ornaments and their significance for the origin of language debate / Francesco d'Errico and Marian Vanhaeren -- Reading the artifacts : gleaning language skills from the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa / Christopher Stuart Henshilwood and Benoît Dubreuil -- Red ochre, body painting, and language : interpreting the Blombos ochre / Ian Watts -- Theoretical underpinnings of inferences about language evolution : the syntax used at Blombos Cave / Rudolf Botha -- Fossil cues to the evolution of speech / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Evidence against a genetic-based revolution in language 50,000 years ago / Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann -- A "language-free" explanation for differences between the European Middle and Upper Paleolithic record / Wil Roebroeks and Alexander Verpoorte -- Diversity in languages, genes, and the language faculty / James R. Hurford and Dan Dediu -- How varied typologically are the languages of Africa? / Michael Cysouw and Bernard Comrie -- What click languages can and can't tell us about language origins / Bonny Sands and Tom Güldemann -- Social origins : sharing, exchange, kinship / Alan Barnard -- As well as words : Congo Pygmy hunting, mimicry, and play / Jerome Lewis -- Sexual selection models for the emergence of symbolic communication : why they should be reversed / Camilla Power -- Language, ochre, and the rule of law / Chris Knight |
| Summary |
This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Internationally renowned scholars address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. - ;This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeologica |
| Notes |
Series "Oxford linguistics" from dust jkb |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-364) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Origin.
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Historical linguistics -- Africa
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Anthropological linguistics -- Africa
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Sociolinguistics -- Africa
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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Anthropological linguistics
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Historical linguistics
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Language and languages
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Language and languages -- Origin
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Sociolinguistics
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Languages.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001567
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Botha, Rudolf P.
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Knight, Chris, 1942-
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| LC no. |
2009455149 |
| ISBN |
9780191567674 |
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0191567671 |
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1282268619 |
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9781282268616 |
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9786612268618 |
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6612268611 |
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