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.
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