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The archaeology of language origins–a review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Iain Davidson
Iain Davidson*
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Department of Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
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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?

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 246 , March 1991 , pp. 39 - 48
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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