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Archaeology and Language II

Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses

By: Matthew Spriggs (Editor), Roger Blench (Editor)

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Hardcover | 3 December 1998 | Edition Number 1

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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 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 the literature. This three-part survey is the first study to address this.
Archaeology and Language II examines in some detail how archaeological data can be interpreted through linguistic hypotheses. This collection demonstrates the possibility that, where archaeological sequences are reasonably well-known, they might be tied into evidence of language diversification and thus produce absolute chronologies. Where there is evidence for migrations and expansions these can be explored through both disciplines to produce a richer interpretation of prehistory. An important part of this is the origin and spread of food production which can be modelled through the spread of both plants and words for them.
Archaeology and Language II will be of interest to researchers in linguistics, archaeologists and anthropologists.

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Preface
Correlating archaeological and linguistic sequences	p. 31
Archaeology, language and the peopling of West Africa: a consideration of the evidence	p. 33
Neolithic correlates of ancient Tibeto-Burman migrations	p. 67
Archaeology, linguistics and the expansion of the East and Southeast Asian Neolithic	p. 103
From Taiwan to the Tuamotus: absolute dating of Austronesian language spread and major sub-groups	p. 115
The archaeology of Papuan and Austronesian prehistory in the Northern Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia	p. 128
Sequencing and dating linguistic events in Oceania: the linguistics/archaeology interface	p. 141
The enigma of Pama-Nyungan expansion in Australia	p. 174
Migration and expansion and their linguistic correlates: Eurasian case studies	p. 193
Ethnicity and language in prehistoric Northeast Asia	p. 195
Cultural relationships In North-Central Eurasia	p. 209
The Eurasian spread zone and the Indo-European dispersal	p. 220
Gimbutas' Kurgan - PIE homeland hypothesis: a linguistic critique	p. 267
Archaeology and language in a historical context: the creation of English	p. 283
Linguistic models in reconstructing subsistence systems	p. 295
A conservative look at diffusion involving Mixe-Zoquean languages	p. 297
Linguistic evidence for the development of yam and palm culture among the Delta Cross River peoples of Southeastern Nigeria	p. 324
Japanese rice agriculture terminology and linguistic affiliation of Yayoi culture	p. 366
Rice in Southeast Asia: a regional interdisciplinary approach	p. 379
Linguistic data on transmission of Southeast Asian cultigens to India and Sri Lanka	p. 390
Index	p. 416
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