The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryHarvard University Press, 1958 - 465 pagine Through the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them. But the result is always a mixture. The linguistic evolution of Italy parallels this development, and presented as part of the cultural history it beomes a colorful and exciting tale.--dust jacket. |
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Pagina 104
... evidence . Patroni , at least , believes that a Mediterranean race does not arrive from Africa ( or the Near East ) with the physical ap- pearance and cultural equipment of which testimony has been unearthed in the several regions where ...
... evidence . Patroni , at least , believes that a Mediterranean race does not arrive from Africa ( or the Near East ) with the physical ap- pearance and cultural equipment of which testimony has been unearthed in the several regions where ...
Pagina 201
... evidence we have is mainly toponymic . ( But the suffix — asca , so often claimed as the pre - Indo - European Leitfossil of the area , could be also Indo - European . ) Otherwise our evidence is - ( das eigentliche ligurisch ) is ...
... evidence we have is mainly toponymic . ( But the suffix — asca , so often claimed as the pre - Indo - European Leitfossil of the area , could be also Indo - European . ) Otherwise our evidence is - ( das eigentliche ligurisch ) is ...
Pagina 220
... evidence , they cannot be proved to be the physical descendants of older population strata , the material evidence makes it imperative to separate them clearly from other Iron Ages peoples of Italy , both cremating and inhuming . The ...
... evidence , they cannot be proved to be the physical descendants of older population strata , the material evidence makes it imperative to separate them clearly from other Iron Ages peoples of Italy , both cremating and inhuming . The ...
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