The archaeology of language origins–a review
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Vol. 65 (246) , 39-48
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0007928x
Abstract
Language is a feature to distinguish the ‘human’ from the ‘animal’ that has seemed a more enduring diagnostic character than some. But how is the breath of words to be made visible in the stony traces of the Pleistocene?Keywords
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