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| | Archaeology, Language, and History: Essays on Culture and Ethnicity |
 | | It is too often assumed that language, culture, and biology are uncomplicatedly coupled, and that their history can be modelled with simple "trees". |
 | | A collection of papers stressing the historical and geographical specificity of ethnicity and language use, and focusing on small-scale communities, is just not as approachable, either by lay readers or other scholars. |
 | | Looking at the Manchu-Tungusic language family, Lindsay Whaley finds, contra Bellwood, that the problems with phylogenetic ("tree") models and the need for reticulate ("carpet") models can't be restricted to the micro level, but extend even to the level of language phyla. |
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