Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - Early Speakers in the New World AU - Douaud PC Y1 - 1983 VL - 21 IS - 2 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 169 EP - 180 KW - Amerindian KW - Mongoloid KW - Historical linguistics KW - Glottochronology KW - Population movements N2 - N2 - The Amerindian languages are noted for their exceptional diversity and the difficulties one faces when attempting to elicit their origins and effect a classification. This paper places American Indian linguistics within the broader context of the study of early man in the New World; several theories of origins and population movements are put forward in an effort to demonstrate that a multidisciplinary approach combining the techniques of archeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology is indispensable for the serious study of any aspect od American prehistory. ER -