Lexical Reconstruction to Reconstruct Prehistory: The Proto-Afrasian Terms for Weapons, War, and Other Armed Conflicts
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39 Этнография. Жизнь народа. Обычаи. Образ жизни. Фольклор
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28.09.2021
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2021
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10.31857/S086954150016795-4
Lexical Reconstruction to Reconstruct Prehistory: The Proto-Afrasian Terms for Weapons, War, and Other Armed Conflicts
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The article aims to reconstruct the Proto-Afrasian terminology of weapons and armed conflicts, including illuminating the problem of war in prehistory from a linguistic point of view, usually ignored by archaeologists and prehistorians when discussing this problem. The proto-language of the early Afrasians and their immediate descendants, the North Afrasians (who spoke the Proto-Semitic-Egyptian-Berber-Chadic language), whom the author identifies with the creators of the Natufian and post-Natufian archaeological cultures of the Levant, started branching, according to his glottochronological calculations, by the method of M. Swadesh, significantly improved by Sergei Starostin, in the 11th-10th mill. BCE. The article provides detailed etymologies of 12 reconstructed Proto-Afrasian terms for weapons (from mace to shield) and 13 terms denoting different types of armed conflicts; several of these indicate either an already established or an emerging meaning of “war” in the Proto-Afrasian language, and thus in the minds of its speaker community.

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Милитарёв А. Ю. Юрьевич
Российский государственный гуманитарный университет
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