manifestation_id original_title title_transcription creator contributor publisher pub_date statement_of_responsibility manifestation_price manifestation_created_at manifestation_updated_at manifestation_identifier access_address description note extent dimensions carrier_type edition edition_string volume_number volume_number_string issue_number issue_number_string serial_number isbn issn jpno doi iss_itemno lccn ncid issn_l subject:unknown subject:ndlsh subject:bsh subject:lcsh classification:ndc9 classification:ddc classification:ndc8 classification:ndc10 item_id item_identifier call_number item_note acquired_at accepted_at circulation_status shelf library item_created_at item_updated_at 89904 Language in prehistory "" Alan Barnard Cambridge University Press 2016 2018-11-01 10:29:38 +0900 2019-11-16 14:18:01 +0900 volume 9781107692596 "" "" "" "" "" "" "" 89903 10085251 801|B 22| "BB20484873|xii, 184 p.|Summary: ""For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard acknowledges this difficulty and argues that we can nevertheless infer a great deal about our linguistic past from what is around us in the present. Hunter-gatherers still inhabit much of the world, and in sufficient number to enable us to study the ways in which they speak, the many languages they use, and what they use them for. Barnard investigates the lives of hunter-gatherers by understanding them in their own terms, to create a book which will be welcomed by all those interested in the evolution of language""-- Provided by publisher|Includes bibliographical references and index" 2017-02-15 00:00:00 +0900 Available On Shelf offices yours 2018-11-01 10:29:39 +0900 2018-11-09 17:56:14 +0900