History and the testimony of language / Christopher Ehret.
| Author/creator | Ehret, Christopher |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Description | xii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010001040 |
| ISBN | 9780520262041 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520262058 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |