Bronze- and Iron-Age Celtic-speakers
What don't we know, what can't we know, and what could we know? Language, genetics and archaeology in the twenty-first century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8885294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Sims-Williams (0000-0002-3306-7012, Aberystwyth University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Pages | 427-449 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Antiquaries Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5815 • E-ISSN: 1758-5309 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000358151200011x |
| OpenAlex | W2317034626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 120 |
In 1998 the author published ‘Genetics, linguistics and prehistory: thinking big and thinking straight’, a critique of late twentieth-century attempts to synthesize the disciplines of genetics, linguistics and archaeology. This paper assesses subsequent progress, using examples from various parts of the world, including Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Frisia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Micronesia, Portugal, Spain and the Canary Islands. The growing importance of mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome, rather than classical population genetics, is emphasized. The author argues that ancient DNA and early linguistic data should be used more. Languages mentioned include Aquitanian, Basque, Celtiberian, Etruscan, Finnish, Hungarian, Iberian, Lepontic, Lusitanian, Pictish, Raetic, ‘Tartessian’, Thracian and the Ladin dialect of the Italian Alps. Aspects of the ancient linguistic geography of Scotland and the Iberian peninsula are discussed, as is the difficulty of deciding the direction of spread of Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages. The potential of ancient place and personal names is illustrated from Celtic
Archaeology · Bronze Age · Celtic languages · Genealogy · Geography · Historical linguistics · Linguistics · Peninsula · Population · Prehistory · Sociology · Classics · Demography · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Forensic and Genetic Research · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
A Note on the Ogham Inscription from Buckquoy, Orkney
The Ogham Inscriptions of Scotland and Brittonic Pictish
The South-West of Ancient Hispania in its Linguistic and Epigraphic Context
Dialectometry and Genetic Demography of Cystic Fibrosis. When Results Converge
Human paleogenetics of Europe – The known knowns and the known unknowns
Haplotypes and textual types
An Alternative to ‘Celtic from the East’ and ‘Celtic from the West
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
Genes mirror geography within Europe
MtDNA Variation among Greenland Eskimos
MtDNA Analysis Reveals a Major Late Paleolithic Population Expansion from Southwestern to Northeastern Europe
Correcting for Purifying Selection
The Eurasian Heartland
The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols
Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites
Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law
Tracing European Founder Lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA Pool
Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Europe Is Clinal and Influenced Primarily by Geography, Rather than by Language
The Molecular Dissection of mtDNA Haplogroup H Confirms That the Franco-Cantabrian Glacial Refuge Was a Major Source for the European Gene Pool
The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe
Is it necessary to assume an apartheid-like social structure in Early Anglo-Saxon England?
Linguistic Diversity
The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World
Celtic influence on Old English
Indo-European Linguistics
Numbering system for the hammerhead
Indo-European Poetry and Myth
Onomasticon provinciarum Europae Latinarum
Archaeology and Language I
Towards a History of the Basque Language
Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture
Ancient Europe from the Beginnings of Agriculture to Classical Antiquity
Genetics, Historical Linguistics and Language Variation
An Atlas for Celtic Studies
A Commentary on Herodotus. Books I-IV
Archaeology and Language
On the power-law distribution of language family sizes
Pictish Progress
The Celts
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
A formal test of linguistic and genetic coevolution in native Central and South America
No signature of Y chromosomal resemblance between possible descendants of the Cimbri in Denmark and Northern Italy
Genetic investigation of the patrilineal kinship structure of early medieval Ireland
MtDNA analysis of human remains from an early Danish Christian cemetery
Worldwide analysis of multiple microsatellites
Geostatistics and spatial analysis in biological anthropology
Genetic and Linguistic Affinities between Human Populations in Eurasia and West Africa
The Archaeological and Genetic Foundations of the European Population during the Late Glacial
The Neolithic transition in Europe
On the Probability of the Extinction of Families
A Problem with Synthetic Maps
Mitochondrial Diversity in Linguistic Isolates of the Alps
At the Edge of Knowability
Georgian and Kurd mtDNA sequence analysis shows a lack of correlation between languages and female genetic lineages
Genetics, linguistics, and prehistory
Archaeology and language
Random causes with directed effects
Isotopic signatures and hereditary traits
Language Distribution and Migration Theory
Time Depth in Historical Linguistics 1-2
Archaeology and Language I
Did Indo-European Languages Spread Before Farming
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |