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The Cradle of Language
Edited by Rudolf Botha and Chris Knight
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234x156mm
978-0-19-954586-5
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30 April 2009
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- The first book to focus on the African origins of human language
- Reports the latest thinking from a wide range of disciplines
- Written by internationally renowned scholars in biology, anthropology, linguistics, genetics, archaeology, and cognitive science
- Offers fresh perspectives on human evolution
- Jargon-free and accessible writing
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 archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. The book also considers parallel developments among Europe's Neanderthals and the contrasting outcomes for the two species. Following an extensive introduction contextualizing and linking the book's topics and approaches, fifteen chapters bring together many of the most significant recent findings and developments in modern human origins research. The fields
represented by the authors include genetics, biology, behavioural ecology, linguistics, archaeology, cognitive science, and anthropology.
Readership: The book will be essential reading for scholars and students of the evolution of language, including linguists, archaeologists, palaeontologists, geneticists, evolutionary biologists, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, anthropologists, musicologists, specialists in artificial intelligence and computer modelling, and primatologists.
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Edited by Rudolf Botha, University of Stellenbosch, and Chris Knight, University of East London Contributors:
Rudolf Botha, University of Stellenbosch
Chris Knight, University of East London
Alan Barnard, University of Edinburgh
Rebecca L. Cann, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Dan Dediu, University of Edinburgh
Francesco d'Errico, University Bordeaux 1
Karl Diller, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Benoît Dubreuil, Université du Québec à Montréal
W. Tecumseh Fitch, University of St. Andrews
Tom Güldemann, University of Zurich
Chris Henshilwood, University of Bergen
James Hurford, University of Edinburgh
Jerome Lewis, University College London
Camilla Power, University of East London
Wil Roebroeks, Leiden University
Bonny Sands, Northern Arizona University
Marian Vanhaeren, University College London
Alexander Verpoorte, Leiden University
Ian Watts
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1: Chris Knight: Introduction: Perspectives on the Evolution of Language in Africa
2: Francesco d'Errico and Marian Vanhaeren: Earliest Personal Ornaments and Their Significance for the Origin of Language Debate
3: Christopher Stuart Henshilwood and Benoît Dubreuil: Reading the Artefacts: Gleaning Language Skils From the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa
4: Ian Watts: Red Ochre, Body Painting, and Language: Interpreting the Blombos Ochre
5: Rudolf Botha: Theoretical Underpinnings of Inferences About Languae Evolution: The Syntax Used at Blombos Cave
6: W. Tecumseh Fitch: Fossil Cues to the Evolution of Speech
7: Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann: Evidence Against a Genetic-Based Revolution in Language 50,000 Years Ago
8: Wil Roebroeks and Alexander Verpoorte: A 'Language-Free' Explanation for Differences Between the European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Record
9: Iain Davidson: The Importance of Archaeological Evidence for Investigating the Evolutionary Emergence of Language
10: James R. Hurford and Dan Dediu: Diversity if Languages, Genes, and the Language Faculty
11: Michael Cysouw and Bernard Comrie: How Varied Typologically are the Languages of Africa?
12: Bonny Sands and Tom Güldemann: What Click Languages Can and Can't Tell us About Language Origins
13: Alan Barnard: Social Origins: Sharing, Exchange, Kinship
14: Jerome Lewis: As Well as Words: Congo Pygmy Hunting, Mimicry, and Play
15: Camilla Power: Sexual Selection Models for the Emergence of Symbolic Communication: Why They Should be Reversed
16: Chris Knight: Language, Ochre, and the Rule of Law
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