Artefacts, language and texts I. Theoretical and Methodological Orientations

ARCHAEOLOGY AND LANGUAGE I Theoretical and methodological orientations
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Preface
General introduction
Introduction
Part I PREHISTORY OF LANGUAGE
1 Evolution and the biological correlates of linguistic features
2 Cognitive archaeology: a look at evolution outside and inside language
3 New epistemological perspectives for the archaeology of writing
Part II DEEP-LEVEL LINKAGES/ HYPOTHESES
4 Principles for palaeolinguistic reconstruction
5 The diffusion of modern languages in prehistoric Eurasia
6 World linguistic diversity and farming dispersals
Part III PROBLEMS OF METHOD
7 The homelands of the Indo-Europeans
8 The epicentre of the Indo-European linguistic spread
9 Are correlations between archaeological and linguistic reconstructions possible?
10 Linguoarchaeology: goals, advances and limits
11 Crabs, turtles and frogs: linguistic keys to early African subsistence systems
12 Linguistic archaeology: tracking down the Tasaday language
13 Social networks and kinds of speech-community event
14 Linguistic similarity measures using the minimum message length principle
Part IV ORAL TRADITIONS
15 Ancient migrations in the northern sub-Urals: archaeology, linguistics and folklore
16 Oral traditions and the prehistory of the Ed o . -speaking people of Benin
17 Oral traditions and archaeology: two cases from Vanuatu
18 Puhi, the mythical paramount chief of Uvea and ancient links between Uvea and Tonga
19 Traditions of extinct animals, changing sea-levels and volcanoes among Australian Aboriginals: evidence from linguistic and ethnographic research
20 The lost languages of Erromango (Vanuatu)
21 Oral traditions, archaeology and linguistics: the early history of the Saami in Scandinavia
Index