Research Catalog

Title

Archaeology and linguistics : aboriginal Australia in global perspective / edited by Patrick McConvell and Nicholas Evans.

Publication

Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press Australia, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McConvell, Patrick.
• Evans, Nicholas, 1956-

Description

xvi, 460 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• History
• Australia
• Iwi taketake
• Aborigènes d'Australie
• Aborigines
• Australische talen
• Archeologie
• 73.06 ethnography
• 18.95 Papuan and Australian languages
• 15.30 archaeology: general
• Comparative linguistics > Australia
• Language and culture > Australia
• Aboriginal Australians > Languages > History
• Linguistic paleontology > Australia

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-453) and index.

Contents

1. Clues to Australia's human past: pulling together the strands / Patrick McConvell and Nicholas Evans -- 2. Building on each other's myths: archaeology and linguistics in Australia / Sandra Bowdler -- 3. Comparative linguistics and Australian prehistory / Harold Koch -- 4. Genes, languages and landscapes in Australia / Neville White -- 5. On the correlation between linguistic and archaeological reconstructions / Ilia Peiros -- 6. Language classification and models of the peopling of the Americas / Ruth Gruhn -- 7. Dialect distribution and small group interaction in Greenlandic Eskimo / Michael Fortescue -- 8. Prehistoric cultural explanations for widespread language families / Peter Bellwood -- 9. Sprung from two common sources: Sahul as a linguistic area / Johanna Nichols -- 10. Structural parallelism and convergence in the Princess Charlotte Bay languages / Bruce Rigsby -- 11. The temporal interpretation of linguistic diversity in the Top End / Mark Harvey -- 12. Comparative flora terminology of the central Northern Territory / David Nash -- 13. Long lost relations: Pama-Nyungan and Northern kinship / Patrick McConvell -- 14. Macassan loans and linguistic stratification in western Arnhem Land / Nicholas Evans -- 15. A continent of foragers: Aboriginal Australia as a 'regional system' / Ian Keen -- 16. Chipping away at the past: a northern New South Wales perspective / Terry Crowley -- 17. Little Big Men: alliance and schism in northeastern New South Wales during the late Holocene / Luke Godwin -- 18. 'Worth a thousand words'? Words, images and material culture: a New England case study / Isabel McBryde -- 19. Cognate search in the Pama-Nyungan language family / Geoff O'Grady and Susan Fitzgerald -- 20. The distribution of large blades: evidence for recent changes in Aboriginal ceremonial exchange networks / Harry Allen -- 21. Small tools and social change / Robert Layton -- 22. The cradle of the Pama-Nyungans: archaeological and linguistic speculations / Nicholas Evans and Rhys Jones -- App. Alternative language and ethnic names.

ISBN

• 0195537289
• 9780195537284
• 0195506707
• 9780195506709

LCCN

98107942

OCLC

• ocm37906850
• 37906850
• SCSB-799284

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library