Linguistics for Archaeologists

A Case-study in the Andes

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6044583
AutoresPaul Heggarty (0000-0001-9585-126X, Mott MacDonald (United Kingdom), autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume18
Fascículo1
Páginas35-56
Data de publicação2008-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0959774308000036
OpenAlexW2135643659
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas12

In the previous issue of CAJ, Heggarty (2007) set out how certain key principles and methods of historical linguistics can be exploited to open up another window on the past, from a perspective quite different and complementary to that offered by the archaeological record. Following this up, we turn here to an ideal case-study for exploring how the various patterns in linguistic (pre-)histories can be matched with their most plausible correlates in the archaeological data. Beyond our initial illustration of the Incas we now look further afield, to set the sequence of major civilizations of the Andes into its linguistic context, tracing the expansion trajectories of the main Andean language families further back in time, stage by stage, ultimately to their most plausible original homelands. The linguistic story emerges starkly at odds with assumptions widely held among archaeologists of the region. Indeed we encounter a paradigm case of how only a radical rethinking can reconcile our two disciplines' findings into a single, coherent, holistic prehistory for a human population — in the Andes, a prize now tantalizingly within our reach

Archaeology · Art · Genealogy · Geography · Linguistics · Population · Prehistory · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies