Archaeology, Language, and the African Past

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Rowman Altamira, 1 janv. 2006 - 361 pages
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Archaeology, Language, and the African Past is an overview of theories and methods, a fusion of African linguistics and archaeology. Roger Blench provides a comprehensive look at the history of all African language families, incorporating the latest linguistic classifications, current evidence from archaeology, genetic research, and recorded history. This original and definitive volume examines the economic culture of the continent from major crops and plant life to animals and livestock from a multi-dimensional perspective. It provides students of linguistics, archaeology, and anthropology with a critical discussion on the history of African languages and the cultures they articulate."
 

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Page 35 - ... must rest on the merest conjecture and hypothesis. It may seem strange that anything so vague and arbitrary as language should survive all other testimonies, and speak with more definiteness, even in its changed and modern state, than all other monuments, however grand and durable.
Page 314 - Analysis of mitochondrial DNA indicates that domestic sheep are derived from two different ancestral maternal sources: no evidence for contributions from urial and argali sheep.
Page 33 - Voltaire is reported to have said that etymology is a science in which the vowels count for nothing and the consonants for very little.
Page 289 - K.Neumann. 1995. Pollen from Oursi/Burkina Faso and charcoal from NE Nigeria: a contribution to the Holocene vegetation history of the West African Sahel.
Page 299 - Chen, J., RR Sokal and M. Ruhlen. 1995. Worldwide analysis of genetic and linguistic relations of human populations.
Page 297 - Antwoord van Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn op de Vraaghen, Hem Voorgestelt Over de Bediedinge van de Tot Noch Toe Onbekende Afgodinne Nehalennia, Onlancx Uytgegeven. In Welcke de Ghemeine Herkomste van der Griecken, Romeinen, Ende Duytschen Tale Uyt den Scythen Duydelijck Bewesen, Ende Verscheiden Oudheden van Dese Volckeren Grondelijck Ontdeckt Ende Verklaert. Leyden, the Netherlands: Willem Christiaens van der Boxe.
Page 296 - The diffusion of maize in Nigeria: A historical and linguistic investigation.
Page 300 - Le rôle de l'homme dans la dispersion des plantes tropicales. Échanges d'espèces entre l'Afrique tropicale et l'Amérique du Sud.
Page 291 - Human Dispersals and Colonizations in Prehistory — The Southeast Asian Data and Their Implications.
Page 297 - EP, et al. (1996) Mitochondrial diversity and the origins of African and European cattle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 93, 5131-5. Bradley, DG, MacHugh, DE, Loftus, RT, et al. (1994) Zebu-taurine variation in Y chromosomal DNA: a sensitive assay for genetic introgression in West African trypanotolerant cattle populations.

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Roger Blench is a social anthropologist working in agricultural development and the managing director of Mallam Dendo Ltd., a consultancy company based in Cambridge, UK.

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