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vii contents Illustrations viii Foreword by Scott G. Ortman xi Preface xv chapter 1 Who’s Chasing the Uto-Aztecans? 1 chapter 2 Meet the Uto-Aztecan Language Family 24 chapter 3 The Linguistic Artifact: Toward a Prehistoric Sociolinguistics 49 chapter 4 “Numic Spread Sure Goes Good with Whitey Bread” 62 chapter 5 The American Southwest and Uto-Aztecan 99 chapter 6 Southern Arizona, the Tepiman Corridor, and Mesoamerica 159 chapter 7 Old California Uto-Aztecan 184 chapter 8 Uto-Aztecan and the Spread of Corn Agriculture 218 chapter 9 Can Proto-Uto-Aztecan Culture Be Reconstructed? 255 chapter 10 A Rejoinder: Comparative Tepiman Mythology and Beyond 268 chapter 11 Chasing the Uto-Aztecans: A Model of Uto-Aztecan Prehistory 293 chapter 12 Prehistoric Sociolinguistics 311 Appendix: Transcription Conventions and Phonetics 335 References Cited 339 Index 367 ...

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