Table of Contents

1. Foreword; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Photographs; 4. Works of Harold Crane Fleming; 5. Part I. African peoples; 6. Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation: An exploration in linguistics and phylogeography (by Keita, Shomarka Omar); 7. A dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family: Peopling of the Eurafrican-South Asian triangle IV (by Turner II, Christy G.); 8. African weeks (by McCall, Daniel F.); 9. Part II. African languages - synchronic studies; 10. Gender distinction and affirmative copula clauses in Zargulla (by Amha, Azeb); 11. Riddling in Gidole (by Black, Paul); 12. Part III. African languages - Classification and prehistory; 13. Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages (by Blazek, Vaclav); 14. The primary branches of Cushitic: Seriating the diagnostic sound change rules (by Ehret, Christopher); 15. Erosion in Chadic (by Jungraithmayr, Herrmann); 16. On Kunama ukunkula 'elbow' and its proposed cognates in Nilo-Saharan languages (by Burgisser, Philippe); 17. The problem of pan-African roots (by Blench, Roger M.); 18. Part IV. Languages of Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas; 19. Some thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers (by Bomhard, Allan R.); 20. Some Old World experience of linguistic dating (by Janhunen, Juha A.); 21. The languages of Northern Eurasia: Inference to the best explanation (by Bengtson, John D.); 22. Slaying the Dragon across Eurasia (by Witzel, Michael); 23. Trombetti: The forefather of Indo-Pacific (by Morris, Jonathan); 24. Otomanguean loan words in Proto-Uto-Aztecan maize vocabulary? (by Hill, Jane H.); 25. Historical interpretations of geographical distributions of Amerind subfamilies (by Lepionka, Larry); 26. Part V. Human origins, Language origins, and Proto-Sapiens language; 27. Current topics in human evolutionary genetics (by Zegura, Steven L.); 28. A wild 50,000-year ride (by Lieberman, Philip); 29. Can Paleolithic stone artifacts serve as evidence for prehistoric language? (by Bar-Yosef, Ofer); 30. The origin of language: Symbiosism and symbiomism (by Driem, George L. van); 31. Some speculations on the evolution of language, and the language of evolution (by Whitehouse, Paul); 32. The age of Mama and Papa (by l'Etang, Alain Matthey de); 33. The millennial persistence of Indo-European and Eurasiatic pronouns and the origin of nominals (by Bancel, Pierre J.); 34. General index; 35. Index of languages and languages families; 36. Index of scholars discussed