Origine et expansion de l’Afro-Asiatique : méthodologie pour une approche pluridisciplinaire

The Afro-Asiatic linguistic group occupies a geographical zone which straddles two continents, Africa and Asia, a distribution which brings into question the location of this family’s homeland. Linguistics, Population Genetics and Archaeology have tried unsuccessfully to provide an answer, because t...

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Main Authors: M. Ben Hamed, Pierre Darlu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Anthropologie de Paris 2003-06-01
Series:Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/bmsap/564
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description The Afro-Asiatic linguistic group occupies a geographical zone which straddles two continents, Africa and Asia, a distribution which brings into question the location of this family’s homeland. Linguistics, Population Genetics and Archaeology have tried unsuccessfully to provide an answer, because the specificity and the interpretative nature of their different approaches make the homeland issue even more complex, and calls for reconsideration of the methodology used. This paper is a methodological reflection on the development of a linguistic group and an attempt to define an overall theoretical framework to consider the development of human populations in syncretic, biological and cultural terms. We present here a critical review of the linguistic and extra-linguistic methods applied to the question of an Afro-Asiatic homeland. We propose a single methodology taking into account the limitations observed in past and current works on the subject, the considerations related to each discipline as well as the particular impacts due to the nature of the available data.
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Origine et expansion de l’Afro-Asiatique : méthodologie pour une approche pluridisciplinaire
Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris
methodology
genetics
linguistics
Afro-Asiatic
original homeland
morphology
title Origine et expansion de l’Afro-Asiatique : méthodologie pour une approche pluridisciplinaire
title_full Origine et expansion de l’Afro-Asiatique : méthodologie pour une approche pluridisciplinaire
title_fullStr Origine et expansion de l’Afro-Asiatique : méthodologie pour une approche pluridisciplinaire
title_full_unstemmed Origine et expansion de l’Afro-Asiatique : méthodologie pour une approche pluridisciplinaire
title_short Origine et expansion de l’Afro-Asiatique : méthodologie pour une approche pluridisciplinaire
title_sort origine et expansion de l afro asiatique methodologie pour une approche pluridisciplinaire
topic methodology
genetics
linguistics
Afro-Asiatic
original homeland
morphology
url https://journals.openedition.org/bmsap/564
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