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Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories - Language, Archaeology, and Ethnography (Paperback)
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Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories - Language, Archaeology, and Ethnography (Paperback)
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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Clues to Lower
Mississippi Valley Histories David V. Kaufman offers a stunning
relational analysis of social, cultural, and linguistic change in
the Lower Mississippi Valley from 500 to 1700. He charts how
linguistic evidence aids the understanding of earlier cultural and
social patterns, traces the diaspora of indigenous peoples, and
uncovers instances of human migration. Historical linguistics
establishes evidence of contact between indigenous peoples in the
linguistic record where other disciplinary approaches have obscured
these connections. The Mississippi Valley is the heartland of early
North American civilizations, a rich and diversified center of
transportation for every part of eastern North America and to
Mesoamerica. The Lower Mississippi Valley region emerged as the
home of the earliest mound-building societies in the Americas and
was home to some of the most impressive kingdoms encountered by
Spanish and French explorers. The languages of the region provide
the key to the realities experienced by these indigenous peoples,
their histories, and their relationships. Clues to Lower
Mississippi Valley Histories focuses on relationships that
constitute what linguists call a sprachbund (language union), or
language area. Kaufman illuminates and articulates these linguistic
relationships through a skillful examination of archaeological and
ethnohistorical data. Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories
examines the relationship between linguistics and archaeology to
elucidate the early history of the Lower Mississippi Valley.
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