| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 386 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
[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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| Note |
Series "Oxford linguistics" from dust jkb. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-364) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Origin.
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Language and languages -- Origin. |
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Historical linguistics -- Africa.
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Historical linguistics. |
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Africa. |
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Anthropological linguistics -- Africa.
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Anthropological linguistics. |
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Sociolinguistics -- Africa.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Africa -- Languages.
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Language and languages. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Botha, Rudolf P.
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Knight, Chris, 1942-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cradle of language. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2009455149 |
| ISBN |
9780191567674 (electronic book) |
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0191567671 (electronic book) |
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9780199545858 (hardback) |
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0199545855 (hardback) |
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9780199545865 (paperback) |
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0199545863 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612268618 |
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