Title: History and the testimony of language /
Authors: Ehret, Christopher
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: History Methodology; Language and history.; Social history; Africa History.
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.