History and the testimony of language / Christopher Ehret.

Author/creator Ehret, Christopher
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Descriptionxii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2010001040
ISBN9780520262041 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520262058 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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