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Die Hethitische Literaturby Volkert Haas
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 78.30Provides a compendium of Hittite literary texts of genres with detailed extracts and paraphrases, and furnishes a comprehensible non-specialist commentary. In his selection, the author takes account both of features, in particular of the traditions of motives, topoi in Ancient Greece, and in the Old Testament. more...
The Ancient Languages of Europeby Roger D. Woodard
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 40.00A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. more...
The Ancient Languages of Asia Minorby Roger D. Woodard
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 40.00A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. more...
The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabiaby Roger D. Woodard
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 40.00A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. more...
The Cradle of Languageby Rudolf Botha; Chris Knight
Oxford University Press 2009; US$ 45.00This 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. Internationally renowned scholars address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. - ;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... more...
The Prehistory of Languageby Rudolf Botha; Chris Knight
Oxford University Press 2009; US$ 45.95Prominent linguists, cognitive scientists, archaeologists, primatologists, anthropologists, and natural scientists examine issues and advances in understanding language evolution, ranging from the co-evolution of language and music to the evolutionary biology of language. An important and stylish contribution to a fascinating area of research. - ;'When, why, and how did language evolve?' 'Why do only humans have language?' This book looks at these and other questions about the origins and evolution of language. It does so via a rich diversity of perspectives, including social, cultural, archaeological, palaeoanthropological, musicological, anatomical, neurobiological, primatological, and linguistic. Among the subjects it considers... more...
The Horse, the Wheel, and Languageby David W. Anthony
Princeton University Press 2007; US$ 45.00Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central... more...
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