Archaeology and linguistics: aboriginal Australia in global perspectiveThis 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 |
Part Four Areal study and the Australian east coast | 261 |
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Aboriginal Arandic archaeological archaeologists Arnhem Land Arrernte artefacts Australian languages Austronesian Bandjalang borrowed Cape York central Australia ceremonial chapter clans coast coastal cognate colonisation common comparative complex consonant correspondence dialect diffusion distribution diversity Dixon eastern ethnographic Evans evidence example gene genetic Greenlandic Guinea Gumbaynggir Gurindji Holocene initial Iwaidja Jingulu Kaytetye Kimberley kinship Kunwinjku language families large blades lenition lexical linguistic loans loanwords Macassan markers material culture Mawng McConvell neighbours Nganyaywana Ngumpin Ngumpin-Yapa non-Pama-Nyungan languages northern Australia Northern Territory noun class Nyungan O'Grady origin Pama-Nyungan languages patterns phonological Pintupi population prefix prehistory proto-Australian proto-language proto-Pama-Nyungan recent reconstruction record region relationships Rembarrnga River Sahul sample semantic social sound changes South Wales speakers spear spread stone subgroup suffix suggests tableland technological repertoire time-depth tree Umbindhamu Umbuygamu vocabulary vowel Warlmanpa Warlpiri Western Desert words Yolngu
Bibliographic information
| Title | Archaeology and linguistics: aboriginal Australia in global perspective |
| Author | Nicholas Evans |
| Editors | Patrick McConvell, Nicholas Evans |
| Contributor | Patrick McConvell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Australia, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Apr 26, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0195537289, 9780195537284 |
| Length | 460 pages |
| Subjects | › › Aboriginal Australians Aboriginal Australians - Languages - History Anthropological linguistics Archaeology Australian aborigines Comparative linguistics Comparative linguistics - Australia Language and culture Language and culture - Australia Linguistic paleontology Linguistic paleontology - Australia Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Social Science / Archaeology |
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