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028 _aInternational Book Distributors
_b17, Prakash Apartment,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi.
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_d7/06/2018
082 _a417.7 BLE
100 _aR Blench
_a; Matthew Spriggs.
245 _aArchaeology and language. II,
_b Correlating archaeological and linguistic hypotheses.
_c/ R Blench.
260 _aLondon
_b: Routledge
_c, 1998.
300 _axix, 431 pages.
_c:24cm.
365 _b3766
520 _aUsing 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.
655 _aLanguage Arts.
_bLinguistic paleontology.
_bArchaeology.
700 _aR Blench.
942 _cBOOK
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