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020			_a9780199545858 (acidfree paper)
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245	0	4	_aThe cradle of language/ _cedited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2009.
300			_axviii, 386 p., [12] p. of col. plates : _bill., maps ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [304]-364) and index.
505			_a1. Introduction: Perspectives on the Evolution of Language in Africa, Chris Knight 2. Earliest Personal Ornaments and Their Significance for the Origin of Language Debate, Francesco d'Errico and Marian Vanhaeren 3. Reading the Artefacts: Gleaning Language Skils From the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa, Christopher Stuart Henshilwood and Benoit Dubreuil 4. Red Ochre, Body Painting, and Language: Interpreting the Blombos Ochre, Ian Watts 5. Theoretical Underpinnings of Inferences About Languae Evolution: The Syntax Used at Blombos Cave, Rudolf Botha 6. Fossil Cues to the Evolution of Speech, W. Tecumseh Fitch 7. Evidence Against a Genetic-Based Revolution in Language 50,000 Years Ago, Karl C. Diller and Rebecca L. Cann 8. A 'Language-Free' Explanation for Differences Between the European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Record, Wil Roebroeks and Alexander Verpoorte 9. The Importance of Archaeological Evidence for Investigating the Evolutionary Emergence of Language, Iain Davidson 10. Diversity if Languages, Genes, and the Language Faculty, James R. Hurford and Dan Dediu 11. How Varied Typologically are the Languages of Africa?, Michael Cysouw and Bernard Comrie 12. What Click Languages Can and Can't Tell us About Language Origins, Bonny Sands and Tom Guldemann 13. Social Origins: Sharing, Exchange, Kinship, Alan Barnard 14. As Well as Words: Congo Pygmy Hunting, Mimicry, and Play, Jerome Lewis 15. Sexual Selection Models for the Emergence of Symbolic Communication: Why They Should be Reversed, Camilla Power 16. Language, Ochre, and the Rule of Law, Chris Knight
650		0	_aLanguage and languages _xOrigin.
650		0	_aHistorical linguistics _zAfrica.
650		0	_aAnthropological linguistics _zAfrica.
650		0	_aSociolinguistics _zAfrica.
700			_aBotha, Rudolf P
700			_aKnight, Chris
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