The Historical Linguistics of Uto-Aztecan Agriculture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3777889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William L Merrill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 203-260 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5483 • E-ISSN: 1944-6527 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anl.2012.0017 |
| OpenAlex | W2007898893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 67 |
The Uto-Aztecan language family figures prominently in research on early agriculture in western North America. A central issue is the role that the members of the Proto-Uto-Aztecan speech community might have played in the diffusion of maize agriculture from Mesoamerica to the southwestern United States. Key to addressing this issue is determining whether an agricultural lexicon can be reconstructed for Proto-Uto-Aztecan, but despite several comparative studies of the agricultural lexica of the Uto-Aztecan languages, consensus remains elusive. A detailed reanalysis of these lexica indicates that an agriculture-related vocabulary can be reconstructed only for Proto-Southern Uto-Aztecan, supporting the conclusion that maize agriculture entered the Uto-Aztecan world after the division of the Proto-Uto-Aztecan speech community into southern and northern branches. Additional lexical and biogeographical data suggest that the Proto-Southern Uto-Aztecan speech community was located near the modern Arizona-Sonora border when its members began cultivating maize, a development that may have occurred around four thousand years ago, when the earliest evidence of maize agriculture appears in the archaeological record of the North American Southwest
Geography · Linguistics · Archaeology and Natural History · History · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Latin American history and culture
Aztlán and Mexican Transnationalism
Rock Varnish Dating, Surface Features and Archaeological Controversies in the North American Desert West
Uto-Aztecan Maize Agriculture
A recent northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family
The Paleobiolinguistics of the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L)
Ritual Practice and Exchange in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region
Western Basketmakers
Itamu umumi yooya’ ökiwni (“We Will Arrive as Rain to You)
Sapir's Law and the Role of Accent in the Reconstruction of Proto-Corachol-Nahuan
The Initial Farming Population of the Northern Rio Grande
Large-Scale Patterns in the Agricultural Demographic Transition of Mesoamerica and Southwestern North America
American Indian Languages
The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences
The diffusion of maize to the southwestern United States and its impact
The ‘little ice age’
The Initial Domestication of Cucurbita pepo in the Americas 10,000 Years Ago
General patterns of niche construction and the management of ‘wild’ plant and animal resources by small-scale pre-industrial societies
Farmers and Their Languages
Archaeology and Language
A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesis
Homelands of the world’s language families
Subgrouping in Uto-Aztecan
De Teotihuacan al cañón de Chaco
Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 10
Isotopic investigation of pre-Hispanic macaw breeding in Northwest Mexico
Low-Level Food Production
Cabeza de Vaca's land of maize
An archaeologist's view of language macrofamily relationships
Chemehuevi
Diccionario raramuri-castellano (Tarahumar)
Archaeology and Language
Ancient Cultural Interplay of the American Southwest in the Mexican Northwest
Settlements and the Development of “Statelets” in Sonora, Mexico
Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 13, Plains
Ecology of Sonoran Desert Plants and Plant Communities
Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America
Teparies in southwestern North America
Phaseolus (Fabaceae) in Archaeology
The palm has its time
The Use ofSabal uresana (Arecaceae) and other Palms in Sonora, Mexico
Sonora Yaqui Language Structures
The Fremont Complex
The Virgin Anasazi, far western Puebloans
Historical Linguistics and Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Proto-Uto-Aztecan as a Mesoamerican Language
Prehistory and the Traditions of the O’odham and Hopi
Regional Signatures of Hohokam Plant Use
A Brief History of the Chemehuevi Indians
Ecology and Cultural Continuity as Contributing Factors in the Social Organization of the Plains Indians
El Dialecto Mexicano de Pochutla, Oaxaca
Some Lexical Clues to Uto-Aztecan Prehistory
A Northern Uto-Aztecan Sound Law
Proto-Uto-Aztecan *w
Comparative Siouan I
Aboriginal Agricultural Development in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico
Behind the Mexican Mountains
From the Sands to the Mountain
Anthropology of the Desert West
The Origins of Southwestern Agriculture
Northern Uto-Aztecan and Kiowa-Tanoan
Reconsidering the Ocampo Caves and the Era of Incipient Cultivation in Mesoamerica
Toward a Linguistic Prehistory of the Southwest
The Pima Bajo of Central Sonora, Mexico
The Mining Community in Northern New Spain
The Tarahumar of Mexico
Ensayos sobre el Gran Nayar
Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico
Archaeology, Genetics and Linguistic Diversity
Culture Change and Shifting Population in Central Northern Mexico
Hopi Agriculture and Land Ownership
Tepimans, Yumans, and Other Hohokam
Prehistoric Chronology of the Common Bean in the New World
Late Archaic Corn in the Eastern Great Basin
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology
The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |