ABSTRACT: « Speaking Australopithecus. A New Theory on the Origins of Human Language » | 01/2017 | Edizioni dell’Orso

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Speaking Australopithecus. A New Theory on the Origins of Human Language | 01/2017

Date de parution : 01/2017
Éditeur: Edizioni dell’Orso
Nombre de pages : 59

This book argues for a much greater antiquity of human language than has usually been presumed in recent research (according to which it was born with Homo Sapiens at the end of Middle Paleolithic – 50.000 years ago – or at the most with some Neandertal, 200.000 years ago), providing linguistic and archaeological evidence for seeing the appearance of Australopithecus , between 4 and 3 million years ago, as the stage of our evolution when the emergence of an articulated language took place…

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