Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, Languages and Texts Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Preface
	General introduction	1
	Introducing the papers	21
Pt. I	Linguistic models in reconstructing material culture
1	Early Oceanic architectural forms and settlement patterns: linguistic, archaeological and ethnological perspectives	31
2	From pots to people: fine-tuning the prehistory of Mailu Island and neighbouring coast, south-east Papua New Guinea	90
3	Language, culture and archaeology in Vanuatu	109
4	Linguistics versus archaeology: early Austronesian terms for metals	127
5	The dispersal of Austronesian boat forms in the Indian Ocean	144
6	The formation of the Aryan branch of Indo-European	180
Pt. II	Interpreting text
7	The language of death in a bilingual community: nineteenth-century memorials in Newport, Pembrokeshire	211
8	The pre-Classical circum-Mediterranean world: who spoke which languages?	231
9	From artifacts to peoples: Pelasgoi, Indo-Europeans and the arrival of the Greeks	249
10	On the identity and chronology of the Rgvedic river Sarasvati	257
11	The archaeology of knowledge: Austronesian influences in the western Indian Ocean	268
12	Digging up the linguistic past: the lost language(s) of Aneityum, Vanuatu	277
	Index	287