Archaeology and Language II

Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-51869-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: One World Archaeology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blench, Roger

Spriggs, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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