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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Ehret , who currently holds the position of Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, is an American scholar of African history and African historical linguistics particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record. He has published ten books, most recently History and the Testimony of Language and A Dictionary of Sandawe , the latter co-edited with his wife, Patricia Ehret. He has written around seventy scholarly articles on a wide range of historical, linguistic, and anthropological subjects. These works include monographic articles on Bantu subclassification; on internal reconstruction in Semitic; on the reconstruction of proto-Cushitic and proto-Eastern Cushitic; and, with Mohamed Nuuh Ali, on the classification of the Soomaali languages. He has also contributed to a number of encyclopedias on African topics and on world history.

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Christopher Ehret's Published Works

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The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans (2009) (1367)
Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome and mtDNA variation in Africa: evidence for sex-biased demographic processes (2005) (217)
Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East (2009) (168)
The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 (2002) (153)
Bantu Expansions: Re-Envisioning a Central Problem of Early African History (2001) (152)
The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History (1984) (136)
An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400 (1999) (135)
On the Antiquity of Agriculture in Ethiopia (1979) (115)
Cattle-Keeping and Milking in Eastern and Southern African History: The Linguistic Evidence (1967) (83)
Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary (1995) (80)
The Origins of Afroasiatic (2004) (80)
Linguistic evidence and its correlation with archaeology (1976) (77)
A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (2001) (68)
Ethiopians and East Africans : the problem of contacts (1974) (53)
The historical reconstruction of Southern Cushitic phonology and vocabulary (1980) (50)
Patterns of Bantu and Central Sudanic Settlement in Central and Southern Africa (ca. 1000 BC-500 AD) (1973) (48)
Sheep and Central Sudanic Peoples in Southern Africa (1968) (45)
Southern Nilotic History: Linguistic Approaches to the Study of the Past (1974) (44)
Southern Nilotic history (1971) (36)
Language change and the material correlates of language and ethnic shift (1988) (36)
History and the Testimony of Language (2010) (31)
Agricultural History in Central and Southern Africa, ca. 1000 B.C. to A.D. 500 (1974) (29)
The early livestock raisers of southern Africa (2008) (21)
Reconstructing Ancient Kinship in Africa (2009) (21)
Bantu Origins and History: Critique and Interpretation (1972) (19)
Writing African History (1987) (19)
Proto-Cushitic Reconstruction (1987) (18)
Proposals on Khoisan Reconstruction (1986) (17)
Bantu history: Big advance, although with a chronological contradiction (2015) (16)
Berber Peoples in the Sahara and North Africa (2019) (16)
Is the grass always greener on the other side? Social comparisons of subjective well-being (2006) (14)
Some Thoughts on the Early History of the Nile-Congo Watershed (1974) (12)
Shona Dialect Classification and Its Implications For Iron Age History in Southern Africa (1981) (11)
The Taita Cushites (1981) (10)
Preliminary Gaam-English-Gaam Dictionary (1981) (8)
The consonant inventory of Proto-Eastern Cushitic (1991) (7)
Outlining southern African history: a re-evaluation A.D. 100-1500 (1972) (7)
Africa from 48,000 to 9500BCE (2015) (7)
The Nilo-Saharan background of Chadic (2006) (6)
Establishment of Iron-Working in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa: Linguistic Inferences on Technological History (2001) (6)
The Classification of Kuliak (1981) (5)
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective: Africa in World History before ca. 1440 (2014) (5)
Linguistic Testimony And Migration Histories (2010) (4)
Linguistic Archaeology (2012) (4)
Agricultural origins: what linguistic evidence reveals (2015) (3)
Revising Proto-Kuliak (1981) (3)
The primary branches of Cushitic: Seriating the diagnostic sound change rules (2008) (2)
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) (1973) (2)
How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600. By Jan Vansina (Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2004) 325 pp. $45.00 cloth $24.50 paper (2007) (1)
Archaeology, Language, and the African Past. By Roger Blench . AltaMira Press, Lanham, 2006, 388 pp. ISBN 978-0-7591-0466-2 (paperback). US$ 47.95. (2008) (1)
The Southern Nilotes to 1600 A.D. : a linguistic approach to East African history (1970) (1)
The African Sources of Egyptian Culture and Language (1995) (1)
The Origins and Diffusions of the Market Institution in East Africa (1975) (1)
Christopher Ehret Responds: [Bantu History: Re-Envisioning the Evidence of Language] (2001) (1)
Stratigraphy in African historical linguistics (2003) (1)
12 Sub‐Saharan Africa: linguistics (2013) (1)
The internal and comparative reconstruction of verb extensions in early Chadic and Afroasiatic (2008) (1)
Historical Inference From Transformations in Culture Vocabularies (1980) (1)
Language contacts in Nilo-Saharan prehistory (2003) (1)
From Publications on African Languages (1965) (0)
Loanword Histories and the Demography of Migration (2011) (0)
A Linguistic Geography of Africa (review) (2009) (0)
Jan Vansina. Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1990. Pp. xx, 428. Cloth $45.00, paper $17.50 (1992) (0)
Transformations in Southern African History: Proposals for a Sweeping Overview of Change and Development, 6000 BC to the Present (1997) (0)
THIRD CONSONANTS IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN (2003) (0)
Tishkoff The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans (2010) (0)
Early Ancient Egypt as an Outlier of the Middle Nile Culture Area: Language and Testimony (2013) (0)
How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600 (review) (2006) (0)
APPENDIX TWO. Proto-Afrasian and Proto-Erythraic subsistence (2019) (0)
Ehret’s book summarizes a method for the comparative analysis of language—primarily vocabulary and semantics but also phonology and morphology—as a source for writing the early history of Africa. With the exception of the opening (2012) (0)
APPENDIX FOUR. interpreting the Ethiosemitic Cognation Matrix (2019) (0)
PART ONE. Evidence and Method (2019) (0)
Historical Linguistics (2018) (0)
The nineteenth century roots of economic imperialism in Kenya (1974) (0)
Early humans: tools, language, and culture (2015) (0)
PART TWO. Applications (2019) (0)
APPENDIX FIVE. Cushitic Loanwords in Ethiosemitic Core vocabulary (2019) (0)
Reaching zero the ISO way (2003) (0)
Linguistic Archaeology (2012) (0)
ISO 14000 DO WE NEED IT (1998) (0)
4 THE NILO-SAHARAN BACKGROUND OF CHADIC (2016) (0)
African Connections: Archaeological Perspectives on Africa and the Wider World. Peter Mitchell (2006) (0)
Africa in World History: The Long, Long View (2011) (0)

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