Kinship and Deep History: Exploring Connections between Culture Areas, Genes, and Languages

American Anthropologist

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 501-514

  Jones, Doug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture areas; Demie expansions; Kinship (prehistory); Protolanguages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141457560     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2003.105.3.501     Document Type: Review

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