1st Edition
Archaeology and Language II Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses
452 Pages
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Routledge
452 Pages
by
Routledge
452 Pages
by
Routledge
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Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate... Read more
List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Preface, General introduction Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs, Introduction to Volume II Matthew Spriggs and Roger Blench, Part I Correlating archaeological and linguistic sequences, Part II Migration and expansion and their linguistic correlates: Eurasian case studies, Part III Linguistic models in reconstructing subsistence systems, Index
Biography
Roger Blench is Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute, London. Matthew Spriggs is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University, Canberra.
`A coherent overview of an important topic which has been long ignored and/ or often disparaged.' - Antiquity, September, 1999.
'I am very pleased to see this series in press, and I congratulate the editors on their achievement.' - Journal of Linguistics
