The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language

Martine Robbeets is Head of the Language and the Anthropocene Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena and Honorary Professor in the Department of General and Comparative Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. She holds a PhD in Comparative Linguistics from the University of Leiden and a Habilitation in Linguistic Typology from the University of Mainz, and recently completed an interdisciplinary project on the dispersal of the Transeurasian languages, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Her many publications include Diachrony of Verb Morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian Languages (De Gruyter, 2015) and, co-edited with Alexander Savelyev, The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages (OUP, 2020).Mark Hudson is Researcher at the Language and the Anthropocene Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. He was educated at SOAS University of London, Cambridge University, and the Australian National University, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His recent publications include Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism (Archaeopress, 2021) and Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

• Part I. Archaeology, Genes, and Language: Basic Frameworks 1: Martine Robbeets: Archaeolinguistics: Combining archaeology, genes, and language 2: Mark Pagel: Language in human evolution 3: Russell Barlow and Lyle Campbell: Historical comparative linguistics and language classification 4: Bethwyn Evans: Prehistoric language contact 5: Patience Epps and Olesya Khanina: Cultural reconstruction: How to infer the cultural environment of ancestral speakers? 6: Søren Wichmann: Linguistic phylogeography 7: Michael Dunn: Linguistic dating 8: Peter Bakker: Prehistoric language change in social context 9: Rune Iversen and Felix Riede: Culture change in archaeology 10: Paul Heggarty and Adam Powell: Bayesian phylogenetics in language prehistory - and archaeology 11: Chiara Barbieri and Paul Widmer: Advances in population genetics and language history: How large datasets and ancient DNA changed the picture 12: Ruth Mace: The relationship between genetics, language, and culture Part II. Archaeology, Genes, and Language across Time 13: Nicholas Evans: Archaeolinguistics and the languages of hunter-gatherers 14: Peter Bellwood: Farming and language dispersals consequent upon the oldest developments of food production 15: Mark Hudson, Rasmus Bjørn, and Robert Spengler: Bronze Age and languages 16: Haicheng Wang: Ancient states and the rise of writing 17: Mark Hudson, James Harland, and Alison Crowther: Archaeology and language dynamics in the medieval and early modern eras 18: Martine Robbeets and Mark Hudson: Language and the Anthropocene Part III. Archaeology, Genes, and Language across Space 19: Alexander Lubotsky and Tijmen Pronk: Indo-European archaeolinguistics 20: Outi Vesakoski, Elina Salmela, and Henny Piezonka: Uralic archaeolinguistics 21: Martine Robbeets, Mark Hudson, and Chao Ning: Transeurasian archaeolinguistics 22: Ben Potter and Edward Vajda: Palaeosiberian archaeolinguistics 23: David Bradley, Li Liu, Chao Ning, and Rita Dal Martello: Sino-Tibetan archaeolinguistics 24: Jian-Xin Guo, Zhi-Quan Fan, Wen-Jiao Yang, and Chuan-Chao Wang: Tai-Kadai archaeolinguistics 25: Matthew Spriggs, Paul Geraghty, and Yue-Chen Liu: Austronesian archaeolinguistics 26: Antoinette Schapper, Dylan Gaffney, and Nicolas Brucato: Archaeolinguistics of Papuan languages 27: Claire Bowern, Bastien Llamas, Luisa Miceli, Raymond Tobler, and Peter Veth: Australian archaeolinguistics 28: Christopher Ehret, David Schoenburn, Steven A. Brandt, and Shomarka O. Y. Keita: Afrasian archaeolinguistics 29: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and Hiba Babiker: Nilo-Saharan archaeolinguistics 30: Koen Bostoen, Peter Coutros, and Carina Schlebusch: Niger-Congo archaeolinguistics, including Bantu 31: Tom Güldemann, Andrew Smith, and Vladimir Bajic: The archaeolinguistics of Kalahari Basin area languages 32: Matthias Urban, Chiara Barbieri, and Kurt Rademaker: Archaeolinguistics of the languages of the Andes 33: Rik van Gijn, Leonardo Arias, and Jonas Gregorio de Souza: Archaeolinguistics of language families and contact areas of Amazonia