The cradle of language
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2009.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Oxford linguistics. Studies in the evolution of language ; 12. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31430041*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
