Archaeology and Language IV: Language Change and Cultural Transformation

This volume is the final part of a four-part survey of innovative results emerging from the fusion of archaeology and historical linguistics.Archaeology and Language IVexamines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.