Language Relations Across the Bering Strait: Reappraising the Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence

by Michael Fortescue

In building up a scenario for the arrival on the shores of Alaska of speakers of languages related to Eskimo-Aleut with genetic roots deep within Sineria, this book touches upon a number of issues in contemporary historical linguistics and archaeology. The Arctic "gateway" to the New World, by acting as a bottleneck, has allowed only small groups of mobile hunter-gatherers through during specific propitious periods, and thus provides a unique testing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304703303
• ISBN13: 9780304703302
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"