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Archaeology and Language IV - Language Change and Cultural Transformation (Hardcover): Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs Archaeology and Language IV - Language Change and Cultural Transformation (Hardcover)
Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs
R2,698 Discovery Miles 26 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
One World Archaeology

Archaeology and Language I - Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (Hardcover): Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs Archaeology and Language I - Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (Hardcover)
Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs
R4,009 Discovery Miles 40 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the first 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 literature. Archaeology and Language I aims to fill this lacuna.
Exploring a wide range of techniques developed by specialists in each discipline, this first volume deals with broad theoretical and methodological issues and provides an indispensable background to the detail of the studies presented in volumes II and III. This collection deals with the controversial question of the origin of language, the validity of deep-level reconstruction, the sociolinguistic modelling of prehistory and the use and value of oral tradition.

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Archaeology and Language I - Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (Paperback): Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs Archaeology and Language I - Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (Paperback)
Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs
R1,670 Discovery Miles 16 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the first 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 literature. Archaeology and Language I aims to fill this lacuna. Exploring a wide range of techniques developed by specialists in each discipline, this first volume deals with broad theoretical and methodological issues and provides an indispensable background to the detail of the studies presented in volumes II and III. This collection deals with the controversial question of the origin of language, the validity of deep-level reconstruction, the sociolinguistic modelling of prehistory and the use and value of oral tradition.

Archaeology and Language III - Artefacts, Languages and Texts (Paperback): Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs Archaeology and Language III - Artefacts, Languages and Texts (Paperback)
Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs
R1,542 Discovery Miles 15 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Archaeology and Language III interprets results from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing the tools for a radical rewriting of the conventional discourse of prehistory. Individual chapters present case studies of artefacts and fragmentary textual materials, concerned with the reconstruction of houses, maritime technology, pottery and grave goods.

Archaeology and Language III - Artefacts, Languages and Texts (Hardcover): Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs Archaeology and Language III - Artefacts, Languages and Texts (Hardcover)
Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs
R3,996 Discovery Miles 39 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
One World Archaeology

Archaeology and Language II - Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses (Hardcover): Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs Archaeology and Language II - Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses (Hardcover)
Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs
R3,872 Discovery Miles 38 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Using 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.

Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology (Paperback): Matthew Spriggs Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology (Paperback)
Matthew Spriggs
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Marxist theory has been an undercurrent in western social science since the late nineteenth century. It came into prominence in the social sciences in the 1960s and 1970s and has had a profound effect on history, sociology and anthropology. This book represents an attempt to gather together Marxist perspectives in archaeology and to examine whether indeed they represent advances in archaeological theory. The papers in this volume look forward to the growing use of Marxist theory by archaeologists; as well as enriching archaeology as a discipline they have important implications for sociology and anthropology through the addition of a long-term, historical perspective. This is a book primarily for undergraduates and research students and their teachers in departments of archaeology and anthropology but it should also be of interest to historians, sociologists and geographers.

Debating Lapita - Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence (Paperback): Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs Debating Lapita - Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence (Paperback)
Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cornish Studies Volume 13 (Paperback): Philip Payton Cornish Studies Volume 13 (Paperback)
Philip Payton; Contributions by Michael Bender, Amy Hale, Alan M. Kent, Cynthia Lane, …
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The thirteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series includes articles on Cornish emigration, Cornish literature, the novelist Virginia Woolf, the poet Jack Clemo, Cornish mining history, Cornish folklore, the medieval Cornish-language miracle plays, and William Scawen: the seventeenth-century Cornish patriot and language revivalist.

Contributions by
Michael Bender, Amy Hale, Alan M. Kent, Cynthia Lane, Gary Magge, Paul Manning, Philip Payton, Sharron P. Schwartz, Matthew Spriggs, Andrew C. Symons, Andrew Thompson and Malcolm Williams

Cornish Studies Volume 18 (Paperback, New): Philip Payton Cornish Studies Volume 18 (Paperback, New)
Philip Payton; Contributions by Jon Cope, Bernard Deacon, Robert Dickinson, Richard Gendall, …
R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the eighteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series...the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. "Cornish Studies" has consistently - and successfully - sought to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall. The article which provides the cover illustration is a fascinating account of the rise and importance of swimming matches in Victorian Cornwall. These demonstrated both the beneficial aspects of the sport, and the importance of swimming prowess in life-saving around the Cornish coast - an important consideration for the developing tourist trade - the latter providing a significant antidote to the simultaneous construction of maritime Cornwall by a range of English writers as a dangerous region inhabited by wreckers, smugglers and pirates. This latest and diverse collection also includes articles on mining in both nineteenth century and contemporary Cornwall, an exploration of identity using material gathered through individual interviews, an assessment of research into Cornish folklore, discussion of the modern growth of alternative 'Celtic spiritualities' in Cornwall, and a fresh perspective on the Middle Cornish language of medieval Cornish drama. Cover Illustration: Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890, it shows the start of a race from the 1896 swimming matches in St Ives.

Uncovering Pacific Pasts - Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (Paperback): Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones, Matthew Spriggs Uncovering Pacific Pasts - Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (Paperback)
Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones, Matthew Spriggs
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia (Paperback): Sue O'Connor, Matthew Spriggs, Peter Veth The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia (Paperback)
Sue O'Connor, Matthew Spriggs, Peter Veth
R1,068 Discovery Miles 10 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Terra Australis series, focusing on work achieved by the Centre for Archaeological Research and the Department of Archaeology and Natural History, RSPAS, reports the results of archaeological and related research within South-East Asia, with a particular focus on Australia, Papua New Guinea, and island Melanesia.

Social Organisation and Settlement, Part II - Contributions from Anthropology, Archaeology and Geography (Paperback): David... Social Organisation and Settlement, Part II - Contributions from Anthropology, Archaeology and Geography (Paperback)
David Green, Colin Haselgrove, Matthew Spriggs
R2,068 Discovery Miles 20 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Social Organisation and Settlement, Part I - Contributions from Anthropology, Archaeology and Geography (Paperback): David... Social Organisation and Settlement, Part I - Contributions from Anthropology, Archaeology and Geography (Paperback)
David Green, Colin Haselgrove, Matthew Spriggs
R2,041 Discovery Miles 20 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Archaeology and Anthropology - Areas of Mutual Interest (Paperback): Matthew Spriggs Archaeology and Anthropology - Areas of Mutual Interest (Paperback)
Matthew Spriggs
R1,785 Discovery Miles 17 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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