History and the testimony of language
By: Christopher Ehret.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780520262041; 9780520262058
Subjects: Linguistic paleontology -- Africa; Language and culture -- Africa; African languages -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Methods and myths; title: Writing history from linguistic evidence; title: Historical inference from transformations in the vocabularies of culture; title: Historical inference from word borrowing; title: Linguistic dating; title: History in the Sahara; title: Society and economy in the early Holocene; title: Social transformation in the Horn of Africa, 500 BCE to 500 CE; title: Recovering the history of extinct societies: a case study from East Africa; title: Cultural diffusion in the Atlantic age; title: American Crops in Eastern Africa.