Origins of the Western Desert language

Convergence in Linguistic and Archaeological Space and Time Models

Bibliographic Data

ID6038237
AuthorsP Veth (0000-0002-1717-6390, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology James Cook University Townsville Queensland Australia 4811, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume35
Issue1
Pages11-19
Publication date2000-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1834-4453.2000.tb00447.x
OpenAlexW2081321330
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited20

Recently linguists have adopted historical approaches to provide chronologies for the expansion of languages in Australia. McConvell (1996) has defined an approach he refers to as linguistic prehistory, in which the methods of comparative linguistics are used to estimate the point of origin and timing of the spread of the Western Desert language. McConvell and others have aimed to calibrate these reconstructions against available archaeological evidence from the Western Desert. In this paper I consider recent archaeological syntheses from the Western Desert and discuss how inferred changes in archaeological site patterning, occupational intensity, technology, symbolic schema and exchange systems may correlate with linguistic phases of expansion. It is an assumption of this paper that the spread of a language occurs through the migration of those language speakers

Archaeology · Desert (philosophy · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Point (geometry · Prehistory · Schema (genetic algorithms · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy

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