Until recently, archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks, although their goals can be 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 these areas.

Exploring a wide range of techniques used by experts of both disciplines to reconstruct prehistory, Archaeology and Language I acts to synthesize the results of these different fields. This collection looks at areas such as the controversial question of when human beings first began to use recognizable languages and what social and psychological changes this implied. It is the first volume in a wide-ranging survey of the links between these two areas of study.

Archaeology and Language III is the third volume of a groundbreaking survey of the new results emerging from the synthesis of linguistics and archaeology. This installment interprets results from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing tools for a radical rewriting of the conventional dicourse of prehistory and a rich new narrative of the past. It will be of interest to archaeologists, linguists and anthropologists.