In hot pursuit of language in prehistory : essays in the four fields of anthropology : in honor of Harold Crane Fleming

 Content: In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Photo graphs; Works of Harold Crane Fleming; Part 1. African peoples; Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation; A dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family; African weeks; Part 2. African languages --
 Synchronic studies; Gender distinction and affirmative Copula clauses in Zargulla; Riddling in Gidole; Part 3. African languages --
 Classification andprehistory.
 Abstract:             Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming\'s major focus on language -- he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue -- the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming\'s extensive fie