Archaeology and Language: Correlating archaeological and linguistic hypothesesRoger Blench, Matthew Spriggs Psychology Press, 1998 - 431 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. |
Spis treści
a consideration of the evidence | 33 |
2 Neolithic correlates of ancient TibetoBurman migrations | 67 |
3 Archaeology linguistics and the expansion of the East and Southeast Asian Neolithic | 103 |
absolute dating of Austronesian language spread and major subgroups | 115 |
5 The archaeology of Papuan and Austronesian prehistory in the Northern Moluccas Eastern Indonesia | 128 |
the linguisticsarchaeology interface | 141 |
7 The enigma of PamaNyungan expansion in Australia | 174 |
MIGRATION AND EXPANSION AND THEIR LINGUISTIC CORRELATES EURASIAN CASE STUDIES | 193 |
a linguistic critique | 265 |
the creation of English | 281 |
LINGUISTIC MODELS IN RECONSTRUCTING SUBSISTENCE SYSTEMS | 293 |
13 A conservative look at diffusion involving MixeZoquean languages | 295 |
Linguistic evidence for the development of yam and palm culture among the Delta Cross peoples of Southeastern Nigeria | 322 |
15 Japanese rice agriculture terminology and linguistic affiliation of Yayoi culture | 364 |
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8 Ethnicity and language in prehistoric Northeast Asia | 195 |
9 Cultural relationships in NorthCentral Eurasia | 209 |
10 The Eurasian spread zone and the IndoEuropean dispersal | 220 |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Archaeology and Language II: Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses Roger Blench Podgląd niedostępny - 2012 |
Archaeology and Language II: Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses Roger Blench,Matthew Spriggs Podgląd niedostępny - 2014 |
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