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ARCHAEOLOGY: Continuing the Debate on Words and Seeds
A review by Steven Mithen
Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis
Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew, Eds.
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, 2002. 519 pp. $85, £50. ISBN 1-902937-20-1.
Researchers in linguistics, archaeology, molecular genetics, and human ecology explore an explanation for the present-day distribution of many of the world's languages and language families.
The reviewer is at the School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, Shinfield Road, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AB, UK. E-mail: s.j.mithen{at}reading.ac.uk
