Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; Peregrine books. Physical description; xiv, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Spine title: Archaeology & language. Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-335) and index. ContentsContents include: The Indo-European problem in outline. Archaeology and the Indo-Europeans. Lost languages and forgotten scripts, the Indo-European languages, old and new. Homelands in question. Language and language change. Language, population and social organization, a processual approach. Early language dispersals in Europe. The early Indo-Iranian languages and their origins. Ethnogenesis, who were the Celts? Indo-European mythologies. Archaeology and Indo-European origins, an assessment. Subjects; Indo-European antiquities. Indo-European languages History. Indo-European antiquities. Indo-European languages History. Indo-Europeans. Linguistic change. Indo-Europeans. Ethnology. Indo-European languages History. Linguistic geography. Indo-Europeans Prehistory. Language Archaeological study. Historical linguistics. Genres; Bibliography. History. Illustrated. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 370745

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Title: Archaeology and language : the puzzle of ...

Publisher: London : J. Cape

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Edition, reprint.

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New edition of a classic previously published since 1987 by Penguin. Renfrew considers questions of language origins and what they imply about ethnic affiliation. He re-examines the problem of the spread of Indo-European languages and argues that early forms of these were spoken thousands of years earlier than we had previously assumed.

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In this book Professor Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia and Ancient Persia, across Europe and the Indian subcontinent, to regions as remote as Sinkiang in China.

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