03948oam 22005894a 450 991095672380332120240509050229.097814962149351496214935(CKB)4100000008483189(MiAaPQ)EBC5788091(OCoLC)1104534740(MdBmJHUP)muse72224(Perlego)4519314(EXLCZ)99410000000848318920190131d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierClues to Lower Mississippi Valley HistoriesLanguage, Archaeology, and Ethnography /David V. Kaufman1st ed.Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press,2019.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2019©2019.1 online resource (259 pages)9781496222237 1496222237 9781496209979 1496209974 Includes bibliographical references and index.Geography, archaeology, peoples, and languages. Geography and environment -- Archaeology and history -- Peoples, migrations, and languages -- Language contact. Language contact -- Phonetic and phonological features -- Morphological features -- Word borrowings and calques -- Conclusion.2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 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. The region is 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. Language and cultureMississippi River ValleyLanguages in contactMississippi River ValleyAnthropological linguisticsMississippi River ValleyIndians of North AmericaMississippi River ValleyLanguagesMississippi River ValleyHistoryTo 1803Mississippi River ValleyLanguagesLanguage and cultureLanguages in contactAnthropological linguisticsIndians of North AmericaLanguages.497/.5Kaufman David V1805803MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910956723803321Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories4354619UNINA