Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global PerspectivePatrick McConvell, Nicholas Evans This book brings together exciting new work in archaeology, linguistics and genetics to reveal a varied and dynamic view of Australia's Aboriginal past, and its place in the prehistory of the Pacific region. Each discipline provides some pieces of the jigsaw: put these together and a fullerpicture emerges. To the dates and excavations of archaeology we can fit linguistic models of cultural contact and spread, and genetic evidence for past patterns of marriage and migration. Alll three disciplines point to sweeping changes in the mid-Holocene, linked to expansion of the Pama-Nyunganlanguage family over most of the continent. The book includes introductory chapters surveying the methods and current state of knowledge in each contributing discipline as well as sections dealing with regional patterns within Australia; culture contact; the Pama-Nyungan question; and the broaderAsia-Pacific perspective |
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Contents
Part Two Perspectives from afar | 83 |
Part Three Culture contact | 169 |
The temporal interpretation of linguistic diversity in the Top End | 179 |
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Aboriginal America appear archaeological Arnhem Land associated Australia blades borrowed central ceremonial changes chapter coast coastal cognate common comparative complex continuity correspondence culture dating dialect discussed distinctive distribution diversity earlier early east eastern evidence example existence fact Figure further gene genetic given Greenlandic groups Guinea Gulf of Carpentaria historical important indicate initial languages least lenition linguistic loans major marked markers material meaning method names northern noted occurred origin Pama-Nyungan particular patterns period Pitjantjatjara Pleistocene points population possible present probably processes question range recent reconstruction record region relationships relatively Rembarrnga represented result River sample shared significant similar social sound speakers spear spread stone structural subsection suggests Table Territory tradition tree vocabulary Warlpiri Western World Yolngu
Bibliographic information
| Title | Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective |
| Editors | Patrick McConvell, Nicholas Evans |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Australia, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Apr 26, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0195537289, 9780195537284 |
| Length | 460 pages |
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