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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... human failure appears to be proven by the fact that within recent times human effort , and not a new climate , has again improved the yield of the land in many places which had lain desolate and barren since antiquity , for exam- ple ...
... human failure appears to be proven by the fact that within recent times human effort , and not a new climate , has again improved the yield of the land in many places which had lain desolate and barren since antiquity , for exam- ple ...
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... human behavior , and more con- cerned with archaeological evidence runs like this : " A culture is defined as an assemblage of artifacts that occur repeatedly associ- ated together in dwellings of the same kind and with burials of the ...
... human behavior , and more con- cerned with archaeological evidence runs like this : " A culture is defined as an assemblage of artifacts that occur repeatedly associ- ated together in dwellings of the same kind and with burials of the ...
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... human existence on earth , made practically no material progress at all . The improvement in tools 10,000 years old ... human beings , at least as anthropoids , as we must since they possessed a human culture , shown in their Italy in ...
... human existence on earth , made practically no material progress at all . The improvement in tools 10,000 years old ... human beings , at least as anthropoids , as we must since they possessed a human culture , shown in their Italy in ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called Campania century B.C. CHAPTER Charlemagne civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor especially ethnic Etruria Etruscan Europe European evidence fact foreign Gaul Germanic Greek guage Hence idioms Illyrian important Indo Indo-European dialects Indo-European languages inhabitants inhumation inscriptions invaders invasion Iron Age Iron Age cultures Italian Italic Italici Keltic Krahe Kretschmer land Langobards later Latinian Latium least Ligurian linguistic linguistic history Mediterranean Messapic migration modern Moslems native neolithic Normans northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver region Roman Empire Romanic languages Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Visigoths Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 written