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A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan Languages by David Leedom Shaul (review)

A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan Languages by David Leedom Shaul... Book Reviews A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan Languages. DAVID LEEDOM SHAUL. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 377. $65.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by John E. McLaughlin, Utah State University Few linguists have amassed the breadth of expertise in the languages of the American Southwest that David Shaul has. He is especially adept at analyzing and describing the languages found in Spanish and English manuscripts and we owe much of our modern understanding of extinct languages such as Esselen, Eudeve, Opata, and Jova (as well as others) to his expertise. He has also worked with modern languages such as Yaqui, Hopi, O’odham, and Shoshoni, to name a few, and expanded our knowledge of them. Few scholars would be in a position to attempt the synthesis and description contained in this volume. The overall purpose of the volume is twofold: to demonstrate how linguistic evidence (called “artifacts” by Shaul) can be used in tandem with archaeological, biological, and ethnohistorical evidence to describe Western North American prehistory; and to de- monstrate that the homeland of the Uto-Aztecan language family was, at least partial- ly, in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The book contains http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan Languages by David Leedom Shaul (review)

Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 57 (2) – May 5, 2016

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University of Nebraska Press
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Book Reviews A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan Languages. DAVID LEEDOM SHAUL. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 377. $65.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by John E. McLaughlin, Utah State University Few linguists have amassed the breadth of expertise in the languages of the American Southwest that David Shaul has. He is especially adept at analyzing and describing the languages found in Spanish and English manuscripts and we owe much of our modern understanding of extinct languages such as Esselen, Eudeve, Opata, and Jova (as well as others) to his expertise. He has also worked with modern languages such as Yaqui, Hopi, O’odham, and Shoshoni, to name a few, and expanded our knowledge of them. Few scholars would be in a position to attempt the synthesis and description contained in this volume. The overall purpose of the volume is twofold: to demonstrate how linguistic evidence (called “artifacts” by Shaul) can be used in tandem with archaeological, biological, and ethnohistorical evidence to describe Western North American prehistory; and to de- monstrate that the homeland of the Uto-Aztecan language family was, at least partial- ly, in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The book contains

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Published: May 5, 2016

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