The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 June 2025
- ISBN 9780192868350
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages992 pages
- Size 253x175x63 mm
- Weight 1940 g
- Language English 792
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Short description:
This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of how archaeology, genes, and language can be combined to shed light on the human past. It illustrates the extent to which linguistic, archaeological, and genetic histories align or differ, and sheds light on language dynamics from multiple perspectives.
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This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of how archaeology, genes, and language can be combined to shed light on the human past. Our understanding of human prehistory has been revolutionized in recent years by the growth of interdisciplinary perspectives, and particularly by insights from the study of ancient DNA. At a time when the 'Big Data' movement in genetics and archaeology is beginning to make inroads into linguistics, The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language sets the agenda for future research in the discipline of archaeolinguistics.
The handbook is divided into three parts. The first part introduces the basic frameworks of archaeolinguistics, addressing recent trends and new perspectives. Chapters in Part II explore the application of archaeolinguistics to different stages in human history, from hunter-gathering via the adoption of farming and the rise of writing to modern times. Part III features regional case studies from different parts of the world, including not only Indo-European but also Uralic, Transeurasian, Sino-Tibetan, Paleosiberian, Tai-Kadai, Austronesian, Papuan, Australian, Afrasian, Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo, Kalahari Basin, Andean, and Lowland South American languages. In illustrating the extent to which linguistic, archaeological, and genetic histories align or differ, the volume goes beyond the level of 'broad brush' approaches by engaging specialists from a range of disciplines as co-authors, shedding light on language dynamics from multiple perspectives.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Archaeology, Genes, and Language: Basic Frameworks
Archaeolinguistics: Combining archaeology, genes, and language
Language in human evolution
Historical comparative linguistics and language classification
Prehistoric language contact
Cultural reconstruction: How to infer the cultural environment of ancestral speakers?
Linguistic phylogeography
Linguistic dating
Prehistoric language change in social context
Culture change in archaeology
Bayesian phylogenetics in language prehistory - and archaeology
Advances in population genetics and language history: How large datasets and ancient DNA changed the picture
The relationship between genetics, language, and culture
Part II. Archaeology, Genes, and Language across Time
Archaeolinguistics and the languages of hunter-gatherers
Farming and language dispersals consequent upon the oldest developments of food production
Bronze Age and languages
Ancient states and the rise of writing
Archaeology and language dynamics in the medieval and early modern eras
Language and the Anthropocene
Part III. Archaeology, Genes, and Language across Space
Indo-European archaeolinguistics
Uralic archaeolinguistics
Transeurasian archaeolinguistics
Palaeosiberian archaeolinguistics
Sino-Tibetan archaeolinguistics
Tai-Kadai archaeolinguistics
Austronesian archaeolinguistics
Archaeolinguistics of Papuan languages
Australian archaeolinguistics
Afrasian archaeolinguistics
Nilo-Saharan archaeolinguistics
Niger-Congo archaeolinguistics, including Bantu
The archaeolinguistics of Kalahari Basin area languages
Archaeolinguistics of the languages of the Andes
Archaeolinguistics of language families and contact areas of Amazonia
