Hunter-Gatherer Anthropology and Language

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Tom Güldemann ,

Patrick McConvell and

Richard A. Rhodes

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Tom Güldemann ,

Patrick McConvell and

Richard A. Rhodes

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Tom Güldemann: Affiliation:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Patrick McConvell: Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Richard A. Rhodes: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

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Foragers are often portrayed as “others” standing outside the main trajectory of human social evolution, which began with the Neolithic Revolution. In some forms of this narrative, foragers are static, left behind in the tide of history by their dynamic cousins, the farmers.

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