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Christina Skelton
Novel technique to study early writing systems
IGERT trainee Christina Skelton has been using a novel technique to study the origin and progression of early writing systems that arose in southern Mesopotamia around 3400 BCE. Using excavated written tablets... More »
About Me
I love historical linguistics, the study of how languages have changed over time, and the way in which historical linguistics can be integrated with other disciplines. Specifically, I’m interested in using phylogenetic systematics, the methods developed in biology for reconstructing evolutionary trees of organisms, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of a language family or writing system. I’m also interested in using historical linguistics in conjunction with the archaeological record to reconstruct the human past.
