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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Book Description:
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.
About the Author:
Colin Renfrew studied natural sciences and archaeology at Cambridge. In 1964-5 he led an expedition, in collaboration with Professor J. D Evans, to excavate the first Stone Age settlement discovered in the Cyclades, and in 1969-70 was field director of the Anglo-American excavations at the important Bronze Age settlement of Phylakopi on the Cycladic island of Melos. He is now Master of Jesus College and Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0224024957
- ISBN 13 9780224024952
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages346
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