LEADER 03948oam 22005894a 450 001 9910956723803321 005 20240509050229.0 010 $a9781496214935 010 $a1496214935 035 $a(CKB)4100000008483189 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5788091 035 $a(OCoLC)1104534740 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72224 035 $a(Perlego)4519314 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008483189 100 $a20190131d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aClues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories$eLanguage, Archaeology, and Ethnography /$fDavid V. Kaufman 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLincoln :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d2019. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2019 210 4$dİ2019. 215 $a1 online resource (259 pages) 311 08$a9781496222237 311 08$a1496222237 311 08$a9781496209979 311 08$a1496209974 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aGeography, 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. 330 8 $a2019 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. 606 $aLanguage and culture$zMississippi River Valley 606 $aLanguages in contact$zMississippi River Valley 606 $aAnthropological linguistics$zMississippi River Valley 606 $aIndians of North America$zMississippi River Valley$xLanguages 607 $aMississippi River Valley$xHistory$yTo 1803 607 $aMississippi River Valley$xLanguages 615 0$aLanguage and culture 615 0$aLanguages in contact 615 0$aAnthropological linguistics 615 0$aIndians of North America$xLanguages. 676 $a497/.5 700 $aKaufman$b David V$01805803 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956723803321 996 $aClues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories$94354619 997 $aUNINA