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A growing scala of computational and robotic experiments are trying to pin down the cognitive and social prerequisites that may have given rise to human language. From humble beginnings showing how a lexicon may self-organize in a population of artificial agents, these research efforts are now exploring how grammatical languages about complex scenes may emerge. This paper introduces this field of inquiry and then explores whether a dialog with archeologists might be useful.

Anthropological linguistics. --- Linguistic paleontology. --- Language and languages --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Paleontology (Linguistics) --- Anthropological linguistics --- Reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Origin. --- Origin --- Etymology --- Linguistic paleontology

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Historical linguistics --- Glottochronology --- Linguistic paleontology --- Space and time in language --- Language and languages --- Paleontology (Linguistics) --- Anthropological linguistics --- Reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Lexicology --- Linguistic change --- Mathematical linguistics --- Etymology --- Historical linguistics - Congresses. --- Glottochronology - Congresses. --- Linguistic paleontology - Congresses. --- Space and time in language - Congresses.

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In this book, Lynne Kelly explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts. In the first part, she examines knowledge systems within historically recorded oral cultures, showing how the link between power and the control of knowledge is established. Analyzing the material mnemonic devices used by documented oral cultures, she demonstrates how early societies maintained a vast corpus of pragmatic information concerning animal behavior, plant properties, navigation, astronomy, genealogies, laws and trade agreements, among other matters. In the second part Kelly turns to the archaeological record of three sites, Chaco Canyon, Poverty Point and Stonehenge, offering new insights into the purpose of the monuments and associated decorated objects. This book demonstrates how an understanding of rational intellect, pragmatic knowledge and mnemonic technologies in prehistoric societies offers a new tool for analysis of monumental structures built by non-literate cultures.

Linguistic paleontology. --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Prehistoric peoples. --- Oral tradition. --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Paleontology (Linguistics) --- Anthropological linguistics --- Language and languages --- Reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Etymology --- Primitive societies

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How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric process. These include shell-beads, fossil skulls and ancestral brains, modern pidgin and creole languages, homesign systems and emergent sign languages, modern motherese, language use of modern hunter-gatherers, first language acquisition, similarities between language and music, and comparative animal behaviour. The first systematic analysis of the Windows Approach, it will be of interest to students and researchers in many disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, palaeontology and primatology, as well as anyone interested in how language evolved.

Language and languages --- Human evolution --- Linguistic paleontology --- Anthropological linguistics --- Historical linguistics --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Paleontology (Linguistics) --- Reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Origin --- Social life and customs --- History --- Etymology --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Historical linguistics. --- Origin. --- Social life and customs.