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2nd Millennium BC
American Indian Languages
Benin City
Bronze Age
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Change Sea Level
Common Language
deep reconstruction methods
Demic Diffusion
Emblematic Language
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EUROPEAN North East
family
Farming Dispersal
Flinders Ranges
germanic
historical
historical linguistics
Homeland Problem
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
Indo European
interdisciplinary linguistic archaeology research
Language Families
language origins
Language Phyla
Late 3rd Millennium BC
linguistic
linguistics
MML
North West Germanic
northwest
oral
oral tradition studies
Papuan Languages
phyla
prehistoric societies
reconstruction
ROY MATA
sociolinguistic modelling
Speech Community Event
Spread Zones
tradition
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415513487
  • Weight: 760g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Mar 2013
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the first of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination.
Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be very similar. While there is a new awareness that these disciplines can be used to complement one another, both rigorous methodological awareness and detailed case-studies are still lacking in literature. Archaeology and Language I aims to fill this lacuna.
Exploring a wide range of techniques developed by specialists in each discipline, this first volume deals with broad theoretical and methodological issues and provides an indispensable background to the detail of the studies presented in volumes II and III. This collection deals with the controversial question of the origin of language, the validity of deep-level reconstruction, the sociolinguistic modelling of prehistory and the use and value of oral tradition.
About

Roger Blench is Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute. Matthew Spriggs is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University.