R. Blench

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R. Blench, Roger M. Blench, Roger M Blench, R Blench, Ronald . Blench, R. M. Blench, Roger Blench
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272 papers · 4,249 citations · H-index 32

PAPERS

Reconstructing the history of Berber [Amazigh] music
20250 citationsauthor #1
An overview of the Bantoid languages
20240 citationsauthor #1
(De)classifying Arunachal Languages: Reconsidering the Evidence
20242 citationsauthor #1
Linguistic and archaeological evidence for Berber prehistory
20240 citationsauthor #1
The peopling of the Canaries by the Berbers: new data and new hypotheses
20223 citationsauthor #1
The internal structure of Bantoid and defining the border with Bantu
20220 citationsauthor #1
No more heroes: trophic cascades and cancel culture
20210 citationsauthor #1
Evidence of the interplay of genetics and culture in Ethiopia
202138 citationsauthor #10
The East Kainji languages of Central Nigeria
20210 citationsauthor #1
Morphological Evidence for the Coherence of East Sudanic
20210 citationsauthor #1
Relating linguistic reconstructions of plant names in Berber to the archaeobotany of North Africa
20218 citationsauthor #1
The phonology and noun morphology of Yi Kitʊlɛ, an Adamawa language of East-Central Nigeria
20200 citationsauthor #1
Identifying popular musical practice
20200 citationsauthor #1
Research on the Plateau languages of Central Nigeria
20203 citationsauthor #1
Language contact and human dispersal
20200 citationsauthor #1
The South Bauchi languages of Central Nigeria: a fresh overview based on recent fieldwork
20200 citationsauthor #1
‘The world turned upside down’:
20200 citationsauthor #1
The Linguistic Prehistory of the Sahara
201920 citationsauthor #1
The genetic landscape of Ethiopia: diversity, intermixing and the association with culture
20195 citationsauthor #8
Nominal affixes and number marking in the Plateau languages of Central Nigeria
20182 citationsauthor #1
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Stratifying the Peopling of Madagascar
20182 citationsauthor #1
The Translocation of Useful Trees in African Prehistory
20182 citationsauthor #1
STRATIFYING THE PEOPLING OF MADAGASCAR
20180 citationsauthor #2
Reconceptualising the palaeozoogeography of the Sahara and the dispersal of early modern humans
20172 citationsauthor #2
African Language Isolates
201732 citationsauthor #1
1. Introduction: Re-connecting Histories across the Indo-Pacific
20171 citationsauthor #2
Origins of Ethnolinguistic Identity in Southeast Asia
20174 citationsauthor #1
From stone (bowls) to iron without ceramics; questioning narratives of Neolithisation via the ethnohistory of Northeast India
20170 citationsauthor #1
Spirits and Ships: Cultural Transfers in Early Monsoon Asia
20177 citationsauthor #2
5. Ethnographic and Archaeological Correlates for an Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area
20170 citationsauthor #1
Shake It Off: The Ancient Sound of Ceramic Vessel Rattles (Maracas) from Tala and Teuchitlan, Jalisco, West Mexico
20160 citationsauthor #3
Typological bottlenecks: How large-scale regional language typologies help us interpret global prehistory
20160 citationsauthor #1
NUBA MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE STUDIES KAY WILLIAMSON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION AFRICAN LANGUAGES MONOGRAPHS
20160 citationsauthor #1
Finger millet: the contribution of vernacular names towards its prehistory
201613 citationsauthor #1
Vernacular names for African millets and other minor cereals and their significance for agricultural history
201627 citationsauthor #1
ADALLA UBA ADAMU Al-Hausawi, Al-Hindawi: Media Contraflow, Urban Communication and Translinguistic Onomatopoeia among Hausa of Northern Nigeria 23 BEATA WÓJTOWICZ, PIOTR BAŃSKI Swahili lexicography in Poland: its history and immediate future 59 BARTOSZ KURZYCA Shaping the word structure by iambic
20150 citationsauthor #3
Ethnographic and archaeological correlates for an MSEA linguistic area
20151 citationsauthor #1
A history of animal traction in Africa: origins and modern trends
20151 citationsauthor #1
The origins of nominal classification markers in MSEA languages Convergence, contact and some African parallels
20154 citationsauthor #1
Ịzọn verbal extensions
20151 citationsauthor #1
Reconstructing Austroasiatic prehistory
20158 citationsauthor #1
Tarok young people’s speech
201530 citationsauthor #1
NUMBER MARKING IN MADA NOUNS [DRAFT CIRCULATED FOR COMMENT -NOT FOR CITATION WITHOUT REFERENCE TO THE AUTHOR N.B. THE PRESENT PRINTOUT IS IN MADA ORTHOGRAPHY, NOT IPA
20150 citationsauthor #1
Final Records of the Sambe Language of Central Nigeria: Phonology, noun morphology, and wordlist
20150 citationsauthor #1
The Bantoid Languages
20155 citationsauthor #1
Heterochord board and strip zithers in the Cordillera, nothern Philippines
20141 citationsauthor #2
The Austronesians: an agricultural revolution that failed
20143 citationsauthor #1
Implications of Synchronic Ethnography for Agrarian History
20140 citationsauthor #1
THE PREHISTORY OF THE DAIC (TAI-KADAI) SPEAKING PEOPLES AND THE AUSTRONESIAN CONNECTION
20140 citationsauthor #1
Using Diverse Sources of Evidence for Reconstructing the Past History of Musical Exchanges in the Indian Ocean
20141 citationsauthor #1
Re-thinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages
201433 citationsauthor #1
The Role of Agriculture in Explaining the Diversity of Amerindian Languages
20142 citationsauthor #1
Genome-wide evidence of Austronesian–Bantu admixture and cultural reversion in a hunter-gatherer group of Madagascar
201483 citationsauthor #10
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology: Language and archaeology
20143 citationsauthor #1
Using Diverse Sources of Evidence for Reconstructing the Past History of Musical Exchanges in the Indian Ocean
201432 citationsauthor #1
Blackings, Mairi John: Acholi English – English Acholi
20140 citationsauthor #1
The Enggano: archaic foragers and their interactions with the Austronesian world
20143 citationsauthor #1
WILD ASSES AND DONKEYS IN AFRICA: INTERDISCIPLINARY EVIDENCE FOR THEIR BIOGEOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND CURRENT USE
201310 citationsauthor #1
Waterworld: lexical evidence for aquatic subsistence strategies in Austroasiatic
20131 citationsauthor #1
Dictionary of Ogbà, an Igboid language of Southern Nigeria
20131 citationsauthor #1
Was there once a Zone of Vegeculture Linking Melanesia with Northeast India ?
201310 citationsauthor #1
Language, Linguistics, and Archaeology
20130 citationsauthor #1
Nuba mountain language studies
20133 citationsauthor #2
A DICTIONARY OF BELIZE ENGLISH
20130 citationsauthor #1
Dictionary of Ọ̀ nì ̣ chà Igbo
20130 citationsauthor #2
The Prehstory of the Dac- or Kra-Da-Speakng Peoples and the Hypothess of an Austronesan Connecton
20130 citationsauthor #1
AN OVERVIEW OF THE CONTEXT OF THE JEWEL PROJECT: ACCESS RIGHTS AND CONFLICT OVER COMMON POOL RESOURCES IN THE HADEJIA-NGURU WETLANDS
201311 citationsauthor #1
Methods and results in the reconstruction of music history in Africa and a case study of instrumental polyphony
201311 citationsauthor #1
The Prehistory of the Daic- or Kra-Dai-Speaking Peoples and the Hypothesis of an Austronesian Connection
20138 citationsauthor #1
The origins of nominal affixes in MSEA languages: convergence, contact and some African parallels
20135 citationsauthor #1
LIVESTOCK PREDATION IN CENTRAL BHUTAN : THE IMPACTS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE
20137 citationsauthor #1
A dictionary of Ekpeye : an Igboid language of Southern Nigeria
20133 citationsauthor #1
Archaeology and Language III : Artefacts, Languages and Texts
20129 citationsauthor #1
RECONSTRUCTING AFRICAN AGRARIAN PREHISTORY BY COMBINING DIFFERENT SOURCES OF EVIDENCE: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND EXAMPLES FOR WEST AFRICAN ECONOMIC PLANTS
20121 citationsauthor #1
Two Vanished African Maritime Traditions and a Parallel from South America
20120 citationsauthor #1
The history and distribution of the free-reed mouth-organ in SE Asia
20121 citationsauthor #1
Advances in minority language research in Nigeria
20121 citationsauthor #1
Was there a proto-Bantu word for ‘ whale ’ and other mischievous questions
20120 citationsauthor #1
Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria
20127 citationsauthor #1
A TAROK GENDER REGISTER IN CONTEXT
20120 citationsauthor #2
Using diverse sources of evidence for reconstructing the prehistory of musical exchanges in the Indian Ocean and their broader significance for cultural prehistory
20122 citationsauthor #1
Two Vanished African Maritime Traditions and a Parallel from South America
201217 citationsauthor #1
Vernacular Names for Taro in the Indo-Pacific Region: Implications for Centres of Diversification and Spread
20124 citationsauthor #1
Almost Everythng You Beleved about the Austronesans Isn't True
201223 citationsauthor #1
An atlas of Nigerian languages
201230 citationsauthor #1
AARDVARKS GO SHOPPING: DAGOMBA CONCEPTS OF LIVING THINGS (DRAFT CIRCULATED FOR COMMENT)
20120 citationsauthor #1
Theory, methods and results in the reconstruction of African music history
20120 citationsauthor #1
DAGBANI PLANT NAMES
20122 citationsauthor #1
'The world turned upside down': sago-palm processors in Northeast India and the origins of Chinese civilisation
20122 citationsauthor #1
VERNACULAR NAMES FOR TARO IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION AND THEIR POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR CENTRES OF DIVERSIFICATION AND SPREAD
20117 citationsauthor #1
The Austroasiatic Urheimat: the Southeastern Riverine Hypothesis
201162 citationsauthor #2
The Present in the Past: How Narratives of the Slave-Raiding Era Inform Current Politics in Northern and Central Nigeria
201113 citationsauthor #1
(DE)CLASSIFYING ARUNCHAL LANGUAGES: RECONSIDERING THE EVIDENCE
20114 citationsauthor #1
Was there an Austroasiatic Presence in Island Southeast Asia prior to the Austronesian Expansion
201168 citationsauthor #1
The role of agriculture in the evolution of mainland Southeast Asian language phyla
201112 citationsauthor #1
Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert
2010454 citationsauthor #2
The vocabularies of Vazimba and Beosi : do they represent the languages of the pre-Austronesian populations of Madagascar ?
20104 citationsauthor #1
A dictionary of Mada, a plateau language of central Nigeria ; based on the Rija dialect : Mada-English with an English-Mada finderlist
20105 citationsauthor #1
Cultural Bureaucracy and the Manufacture of Ifugao Oral Literature
20100 citationsauthor #1
Oral literature genres of the Nupe of Central Nigeria
20100 citationsauthor #1

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1984 20 citations

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1986 75 citations

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1989 31 citations

1991 13 citations

1992 85 citations

1993 6 citations

1994 117 citations

1995 58 citations

1996 69 citations

1997 103 citations

1998 102 citations

1999 357 citations

2000 63 citations

2001 31 citations

2002 18 citations

2003 189 citations

2004 23 citations

2005 224 citations

2006 670 citations

2007 127 citations

2008 334 citations

2009 126 citations

2010 668 citations

2011 166 citations

2012 99 citations

2013 70 citations

2014 161 citations

2015 50 citations

2016 40 citations

2017 46 citations

2018 6 citations

2019 25 citations

2020 3 citations

2021 46 citations

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