Christopher Ehret
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Ehret |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Ehret |
| SIGNATURE | EHRET C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Remaki n g the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers
Archaeological and environmental research by an international and interdisciplinary team opens new perspectives into the settlement histories of Kansyore, Early Iron Age, and Bigo period peoples in the once forested regions of the Ndali Crater Lakes Region (NCLR) of western Uganda. The research examines the role of Kansyore agropastoralists and their Early Iron Age and Bantu-speaking contemporaries in remaking a once forested environment into a f…
Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE
Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
Historical Linguistics
Historical linguistics studies language relationships and the histories of languages and language families. Using the methods and tools of historical linguistics, anthropologists and historians are able to sketch out the broad histories of the earlier societies that spoke the ancient ancestral forms of modern‐day languages. More importantly, these techniques enable scholars to reconstruct the ancient histories of the numerous culture words of tho…
Early humans: Tools, language, and culture
Given the state of the art of scholarship dealing with the evolution of world history, this chapter provides a balanced perspective between elite and other interpretations of the global past. Christian universal histories were repeatedly written in a spirit that sought to divide divine truth from heretical viewpoints. Starting from the late fifteenth century, the European conquests began having massive impacts on entire world regions, particularl…
Africa in World History before ca. 1440
The African Origins of History Barely more than fifty thousand years ago, the ancestors of every single human being alive today lived in Africa. World history to that point was African history. That is now becoming accepted knowledge. Less generally understood is that, just because a few Africans left the continent around fifty thousand years ago and began to expand across the rest of the globe, history did not come to a halt in Africa. The Afric…
Linguistic Archaeology
Linguistic Testimony And Migration Histories
The application of linguistic evidence in tracing human migrations has a long scholarly history. This chapter begins with two examples of the classical methods of tracing the paths of long-term migration through language evidence. From there it moves on to the less widely known methods of loanword analysis, presenting several historical case studies to illustrate some of the more telling ways in which this kind of evidence can advance the histori…
The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans
African Origins The modern human originated in Africa and subsequently spread across the globe. However, the genetic relationships among the diverse populations on the African continent have been unclear. Tishkoff et al. (p. 1035; see the cover, published online 30 April) provide a detailed genetic analysis of most major groups of African populations. The findings suggest that Africans represent 14 ancestral populations. Populations tend to be of…
The Nilo-Saharan background of Chadic
No abstract is available for SAL supplements
African Connections: Archaeological Perspectives on Africa and the Wider World. Peter Mitchell
A History of Africa
J. D. Fage and William Todoroff. A History of 4th Edition. London/New York: Routledge, 2002. xi + 653 pp. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. Christopher Ehret. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. 480 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Recommended readings. Index. $50.00. Cloth. $22.50. Paper. The writing of an African history textbook is certainly a chall…
The civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800
An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400
Bantu Expansions: Re-Envisioning a Central Problem of Early African History
Christopher Ehret Responds: Bantu History: Re-Envisioning the Evidence of Language
An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400
An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History 1000 BC to AD 400
An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400
Transformations in Southern African History: Proposals for a Sweeping Overview of Change and Development, 6000 BC to the Present
No abstract
Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty
The consonant inventory of Proto-Eastern Cushitic
Hans-Jiirgen Sasse established a solid initial reconstruction of the proto-Eastern Cushitic (PEC) consonants. This initial system had about 20 to 23 consonants. Further work by Linda Arvanites indicated the existence of several additional consonants. The current work rounds out the PEC consonant system and shows it to consist of 30 consonants in all. These for a moderately well-balanced system of voiced stops, voiced implosives in four different …
Language change and the material correlates of language and ethnic shift
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Oral Tradition as History
The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
Cattle-Keeping and Milking in Eastern and Southern African History: The Linguistic Evidence
Cattle have been known in northern East Africa for a long time. A single people initiated the spread of cattle farther south through southern East Africa, and partly into southern Africa, at a time prior to the expansion of Bantu-speakers into these regions. This spread was not accompanied by knowledge of milking. The milking of cattle, although very likely practised by some northern East African peoples since a very early period, diffused to Ban…
Bantu Expansions: Re-Envisioning a Central Problem of Early African History
The civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800
On the Antiquity of Agriculture in Ethiopia
From various kinds of evidence it can now be argued that agriculture in Ethiopia and the Horn was quite ancient, originating as much as 7,000 or more years ago, and that its development owed nothing to South Arabian inspiration. Moreover, the inventions of grain cultivation in particular, both in Ethiopia and separately in the Near East, seem rooted in a single, still earlier subsistence invention of North-east Africa, the intensive utilization o…
Sheep and Central Sudanic Peoples in Southern Africa
This paper, building on the evidence of Bantu words for sheep, develops the hypothesis that livestock-keeping was introduced to southern Africa by people speaking Central Sudanic languages. It is suggested in particular that livestock may have been spread south from western Tanzania, one branch dispersing directly to southern Africa and another eastward to the Indian Ocean seaboard. It should be possible to test this hypothesis further as our kno…
Linguistic evidence and its correlation with archaeology
Linguistic evidence has long been applied to problems of historical reconstruction; and, in particular, considerable effort has been expended in the search for correlations between archeo‐logical and linguistic sources for history. Nevertheless, linguistic sources have remained, for the most part, insufficiently utilized. Historical inferences can be made from the kinds of evidence which inhere in the data of language relationships and from topon…
An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History 1000 BC to AD 400
Language change and the material correlates of language and ethnic shift
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Outlining Southern African History: A Re-evaluation A.D. 100-1500
[No abstract]
Linguistic Archaeology
An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400
Remaki n g the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda: Archaeological Perspectives on Kansyore and Later Settlers
Archaeological and environmental research by an international and interdisciplinary team opens new perspectives into the settlement histories of Kansyore, Early Iron Age, and Bigo period peoples in the once forested regions of the Ndali Crater Lakes Region (NCLR) of western Uganda. The research examines the role of Kansyore agropastoralists and their Early Iron Age and Bantu-speaking contemporaries in remaking a once forested environment into a f…
Shona Dialect Classification and Its Implications for Iron Age History in Southern Africa
Christopher Ehret, Margaret Kinsman, Shona Dialect Classification and Its Implications for Iron Age History in Southern Africa, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1981), pp. 401-443
The Nilo-Saharan background of Chadic
No abstract is available for SAL supplements
The consonant inventory of Proto-Eastern Cushitic
Hans-Jiirgen Sasse established a solid initial reconstruction of the proto-Eastern Cushitic (PEC) consonants. This initial system had about 20 to 23 consonants. Further work by Linda Arvanites indicated the existence of several additional consonants. The current work rounds out the PEC consonant system and shows it to consist of 30 consonants in all. These for a moderately well-balanced system of voiced stops, voiced implosives in four different …
Some Thoughts on the Early History of the Nile-Congo Watershed
No abstract
From Publications on African Languages
Cattle-Keeping and Milking in Eastern and Southern African History: The Linguistic Evidence
Cattle have been known in northern East Africa for a long time. A single people initiated the spread of cattle farther south through southern East Africa, and partly into southern Africa, at a time prior to the expansion of Bantu-speakers into these regions. This spread was not accompanied by knowledge of milking. The milking of cattle, although very likely practised by some northern East African peoples since a very early period, diffused to Ban…
Sheep and Central Sudanic Peoples in Southern Africa
This paper, building on the evidence of Bantu words for sheep, develops the hypothesis that livestock-keeping was introduced to southern Africa by people speaking Central Sudanic languages. It is suggested in particular that livestock may have been spread south from western Tanzania, one branch dispersing directly to southern Africa and another eastward to the Indian Ocean seaboard. It should be possible to test this hypothesis further as our kno…
Outlining Southern African History: A Re-evaluation A.D. 100-1500
[No abstract]
Linguistics and History
Language and History in Africa: A Volume of Collected Papers Presented to the London Seminar on Language and History in Africa (Held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1967-69)
Some Thoughts on the Early History of the Nile-Congo Watershed
No abstract
Southern Nilotic History
Southern Nilotic History: Linguistic Approaches to the Study of the past
Eastern Africa
Variety of experience is perhaps the most striking feature of the history of eastern Africa during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Along the coast this vast region stretches southwards from Mogadishu to the mouth of the Zambezi river. Inland it extends from the southern Ethiopian escarpment and the southern Sudan down along the western edge of the great lakes region, across the corridor between Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi, and then foll…
Linguistic evidence and its correlation with archaeology
Linguistic evidence has long been applied to problems of historical reconstruction; and, in particular, considerable effort has been expended in the search for correlations between archeo‐logical and linguistic sources for history. Nevertheless, linguistic sources have remained, for the most part, insufficiently utilized. Historical inferences can be made from the kinds of evidence which inhere in the data of language relationships and from topon…
The Later Prehistory of Eastern and Southern Africa
On the Antiquity of Agriculture in Ethiopia
From various kinds of evidence it can now be argued that agriculture in Ethiopia and the Horn was quite ancient, originating as much as 7,000 or more years ago, and that its development owed nothing to South Arabian inspiration. Moreover, the inventions of grain cultivation in particular, both in Ethiopia and separately in the Near East, seem rooted in a single, still earlier subsistence invention of North-east Africa, the intensive utilization o…
Historical Archaelogy: A Structural Approach in an African Culture
Preliminary Gaam-English-Gaam Dictionary
Unesco General History of Africa, Vol. 1: Methodology and African Prehistory
Shona Dialect Classification and Its Implications for Iron Age History in Southern Africa
Christopher Ehret, Margaret Kinsman, Shona Dialect Classification and Its Implications for Iron Age History in Southern Africa, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1981), pp. 401-443
The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
The First Spread of Food Production to Southern Africa
The Historical Reconstruction of Southern Cushitic Phonology and Vocabulary
Indo-Africa: Toward a New Understanding of the History of Sub-Saharan Africa
The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
Oral Tradition as History
The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
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