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Series Information: One World Archaeology
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. eBook available with sample pages: 0203205839
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 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.
Series Information: One World Archaeology
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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