Who's chasing the Uto-Aztecans? -- Meet the Uto-Aztecan language family -- The linguistic artifact : toward a prehistoric sociolinguistics -- Numic spread sure go good on whitey bread -- The American Southwest and Uto-Aztecan -- Southern Arizona, the Tepiman Corridor, and Mesoamerica -- Old California Uto-Aztecan -- Uto-Aztecan and the spread of corn agriculture -- Can proto-Uto-Aztecan culture be reconstructed? -- A rejoinder : comparative Tepiman mythology and beyond -- Chasing the Uto-Aztecans : a model of Uto-Aztecan prehistory -- Prehistoric sociolinguistics -- Appendix: Transcription conventions and phonetics
Summary
This book offers a new approach to the use of linguistic data to reconstruct prehistory. The author shows how a well-studied language family-in this case Uto-Aztecan-can be used as an instrument for reconstructing prehistory
