
History and the Testimony of Language
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Acknowledgments
PART ONE. EVIDENCE AND METHOD
1. Methods and Myths
2. Writing History from Linguistic Evidence
3. Historical Inference from Transformations in the Vocabularies of Culture
4. Historical Inference from Word Borrowing
5. Linguistic Dating
PART TWO. APPLICATIONS
6. History in the Sahara: Society and Economy in the Early Holocene
7. Social Transformation in the Horn of Africa, 500 BCE to 500 CE
8. Recovering the History of Extinct Societies: A Case Study from East Africa
9. Cultural Diffusion in the Atlantic Age: American Crops in East Africa
Appendix 1. Outline Classification of Afrasian (Afroasiatic): Diagnostic Branch Innovations
Appendix 2. Proto-Afrasian and Proto-Erythraic Subsistence
Appendix 3. Development of Nilo-Saharan Lexicons of Herding and Cultivation
Appendix 4. Interpreting the Ethiosemitic Cognation Matrix
Appendix 5. Cushitic Loanwords in Ethiosemitic Core Vocabulary
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