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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE. EVIDENCE AND METHOD1. Methods and Myths 2. Writing History from Linguistic Evidence 3.Historical Inference from Transformations in the Vocabularies of Culture 4.Historical Inference from Word Borrowing 5. Linguistic Dating PART TWO.APPLICATIONS 6. History in the Sahara: Society and Economy in the EarlyHolocene 7. Social Transformation in the Horn of Africa, 500 BCE to 500 CE8. Recovering the History of Extinct Societies: A Case Study from EastAfrica 9. Cultural Diffusion in the Atlantic Age: American Crops in EastAfrica Appendix 1. Outline Classification of Afrasian (Afroasiatic):Diagnostic Branch Innovations Appendix 2. Proto-Afrasian and Proto-ErythraicSubsistence Appendix 3. Development of Nilo-Saharan Lexicons of Herding andCultivation Appendix 4. Interpreting the Ethiosemitic Cognation MatrixAppendix 5. Cushitic Loanwords in Ethiosemitic Core Vocabulary Index