Ultraconserved words and Eurasiatic? The "faces in the fire" of language prehistory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 35, 2013, Pages

  Heggarty, Paul ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; CALIBRATION; CHANGE THEORY; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA BASE; GLACIER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD ETYMOLOGICAL DATABASE; LETTER; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL SCIENCE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; WORD RECOGNITION;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84883320171     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309114110     Document Type: Letter

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