Archaeology and Language II: Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses

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ISBN: 9780415117616 | 0415117615
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Copyright: 1/7/1999

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This volume of theArchaeology and Languagetrilogy examines how archaeological data can be interpreted through linguistic hypotheses. The collection demonstrates the possibility that, where archaeological sequences are reasonably well-known, evidence of language diversification may be extrapolated to draw an absolute chronology.

List of figures

(2)

List of tables

(2)

List of contributors

xiii

(2)

Preface

General introduction

(19)

Roger Blench

Matthew Spriggs

Introduction to Volume II

(11)

Matthew Spriggs

Roger Blench

Part I Correlating archaeological and linguistic sequences

(162)

1 Archaeology, language and the peopling of West Africa: a consideration of the evidence

(34)

Kevin C. MacDonald

2 Neolithic correlates of ancient Tibeto-Burman migrations

(36)

George van Driem

3 Archaeology, linguistics and the expansion of the East and Southeast Asian Neolithic

103

(12)

Charles F.W. Higham

4 From Taiwan to the Tuamotus: absolute dating of Austronesian language spread and major sub-groups

115

(13)

Matthew Spriggs

5 The archaeology of Papuan and Austronesian prehistory in the Northern Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia

128

(13)

Peter Bellwood

6 Sequencing and dating linguistic events in Oceania: the linguistics/archaeology interface

141

(33)

Malcolm Ross

7 The enigma of Pama-Nyungan expansion in Australia

174

(19)

Nick Evans

Patrick McConvell

Part II Migration and expansion and their linguistic correlates: Eurasian case studies

193

(102)

8 Ethnicity and language in prehistoric Northeast Asia

195

(14)

Juha Janhunen

9 Cultural relationships In North-Central Eurasia

209

(11)

Ludmila Koryakova

10 The Eurasian spread zone and the Indo-European dispersal

220

(47)

Johanna Nichols

11 Gimbutas' Kurgan-PIE homeland hypothesis: a linguistic critique

267

(16)

Kathrin S. Krell

12 Archaeology and language in a historical context: the creation of English

283

(12)

John Hines

Part III Linguistic models in reconstructing subsistence systems

295

(121)

13 A conservative look at diffusion involving Mixe-Zoquean languages

297

(27)

Soren Wichmann

14 Linguistic evidence for the development of yam and palm culture among the Delta Cross River peoples of Southeastern Nigeria

324

(42)

Bruce Connell

15 Japanese rice agriculture terminology and linguistic affiliation of Yayoi culture

366

(13)

Alexander Vovin

16 Rice in Southeast Asia: a regional interdisciplinary approach

379

(11)

Ilia Pejros

Victor Shnirelman

17 Linguistic data on transmission of Southeast Asian cultigens to India and Sri Lanka

390

(26)

Waruno Mahdi

Index

416

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Archaeology and Language II: Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses

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