In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory

Essays in the four fields of anthropology

In honor of Harold Crane Fleming

Editor

John D. Bengtson

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Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming’s major focus on language — he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue — the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming’s extensive field experience in Africa some of the articles deal with African topics.
This volume is intended to exemplify the principle, in the words of Fleming himself, that each of the four disciplines is enriched when it combines with any one of the other four. The authors are representative of the cutting edge of their respective fields, and this book is unusual in including contributions from a wide range of anthropological fields rather than concentrating in any one of them.

[Not in series, 145] 2008. xxiv, 476 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 November 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.145

Table of Contents

Foreword | pp. ix–xii

Acknowledgments | p. xiii

Photographs | pp. xv–xvii

Works of Harold Crane Fleming | pp. xix–xxiv

Part I. African peoples

Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation: An exploration in linguistics and phylogeography

Shomarka Omar Keita | pp. 3–16

A dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family: Peopling of the Eurafrican-South Asian triangle IV

Christy G. Turner II | pp. 17–23

African weeks

Daniel F. McCall | pp. 25–36

Part II. African languages – synchronic studies

Gender distinction and affirmative copula clauses in Zargulla

Azeb Amha | pp. 39–48

Riddling in Gidole

Paul Black | pp. 49–53

Part III. African languages – Classification and prehistory

Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages

Václav Blažek | pp. 57–148

The primary branches of Cushitic: Seriating the diagnostic sound change rules

Christopher Ehret | pp. 149–160

Erosion in Chadic

Herrmann Jungraithmayr | pp. 161–167

On Kunama ukunkula 'elbow' and its proposed cognates in Nilo-Saharan languages

Philippe Bürgisser | pp. 169–187

The problem of pan-African roots

Roger M. Blench | pp. 189–209

Part IV. Languages of Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas

Some thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers

Allan R. Bomhard | pp. 213–221

Some Old World experience of linguistic dating

Juha A. Janhunen | pp. 223–239

The languages of Northern Eurasia: Inference to the best explanation

John D. Bengtson | pp. 241–262

Slaying the Dragon across Eurasia

Michael Witzel | pp. 263–286

Trombetti: The forefather of Indo-Pacific

Jonathan Morris | pp. 287–307

Otomanguean loan words in Proto-Uto-Aztecan maize vocabulary?

Jane H. Hill | pp. 309–320

Historical interpretations of geographical distributions of Amerind subfamilies

Larry Lepionka | pp. 321–339

Part V. Human origins, Language origins, and Proto-Sapiens language

Current topics in human evolutionary genetics

Steven L. Zegura | pp. 343–357

A wild 50,000-year ride

Philip Lieberman | pp. 359–371

Can Paleolithic stone artifacts serve as evidence for prehistoric language?

Ofer Bar-Yosef | pp. 373–379

The origin of language: Symbiosism and symbiomism

George L. van Driem | pp. 381–400

Some speculations on the evolution of language, and the language of evolution

Paul Whitehouse | pp. 401–416

The age of Mama and Papa

Alain Matthey de l'Etang and Pierre J. Bancel | pp. 417–438

The millennial persistence of Indo-European and Eurasiatic pronouns and the origin of nominals

Pierre J. Bancel and Alain Matthey de l'Etang | pp. 439–464

General index | pp. 465–469

Index of languages and languages families | pp. 471–473

Index of scholars discussed | pp. 475–476

Cited by (3)

Cited by three other publications

Treuil, René

2011. 2.– L’origine des langues. In L’archéologie cognitive, ► pp. 105 ff.

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2009. Books Received. Current Anthropology 50:4 ► pp. 582 ff.

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2020. Bibliographie. In Cosmogonies, ► pp. 325 ff.

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