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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. This large hardback book is in very good condition - there is just a hint of edge wear to keep it from seeming very good inside and out. Linguistic diversity is one of the most puzzling and challenging features of humankind. Why are there some six thousand different languages spoken in the world today? Why are some, like Chinese or English, spoken by millions over vast territories, while others are restricted to just a few thousand speakers in a limited area? The farming/language dispersal hypothesis makes the radical and controversial proposal that the present-day distributions of many of the world's languages and language families can be traced back to the early developments and dispersals.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 384 pages. 6.75x9.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

3 issues. Lacks volume 1. Volume 2: 190pp; Volume 3: 174pp; Volume 4: 170pp. Maps, black and white line and photographic illustrations, some light and occasional browning wrappers, very good copies. Papers include: Madagascar and Indonesia; new evidence from archaeology and linguistics - Pierre Verin and Henry Wright; A new theory on the origin of Chinese - George van Driem; Language phyla of the Indo-Pacific region: recent research and classification - Roger Blench; Asbestos cloth and elites in Southeast Asia - Judith Cameron; Lao Pako: an Iron Age site on the Nam Ngum River in Laos - Anna Karlstrom. A further large number of papers are grouped under the following themes: The Biocultural History of the Orang Asli; Later Prehistoric Cultures of Island and Mainland Southeast Asia; Early Farming Cultures of South Asia; Ceramics and Obsidian in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania; Current Approaches to Sociopolitical Complexity in Asia; Ceramics and Obsidian in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania; Recent Advances in Bornean Archaelogy.…

3 issues. Volume 1 Papers on Thailand Archaeology; New Perspectives on Ryukyu Archaeology; Archaeology and Comparative Linguistics in China and the Philippines; Cultural Resource Management and Historical Archaeology in the Indo-Pacific Region: 200pp. Volume 2 Archaeology in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania; Current Research on Archaeology in Mainland East Asia; Archeology in Cambodia; Biological Anthropology; Papers on Polynesian Religious Structures: 167pp. Volume 3 Current Issues in the Pleistocene Peopling of Continental Asia; Archaeology in Vietnam. 154pp. Maps, black and white illustrations in all volumes. Very good copies.…