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Language relations across Bering Strait: reappraising the archaeological and linguistic evidence
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ISBN: 0304703303 9786611291488 128129148X 1847141641 9781847141644 9780304703302 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Cassell

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In building up a scenario for the arrival on the shores of Alaska of speakers of languages related to Eskimo-Aleut with genetic roots deep within Sineria, this book touches upon a number of issues in contemporary historical linguistics and archaeology. The Arctic ""gateway"" to the New World, by acting as a bottleneck, has allowed only small groups of mobile hunter-gatherers through during specific propitious periods, and thus provides a unique testing ground for theories about population and language movements in pre-agricultural times. Owing to the historically attested prevalence of languag

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