The cradle of language / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight.

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TextSeries: Oxford linguistics | Studies in the evolution of language ; 12.Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 386 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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9780191567674
0191567671
1282268619
9781282268616
9786612268618
6612268611

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cradle of language.DDC classification:

409.6 22

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P116 .C73 2009eb

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-364) and index.

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.