25.4742, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Denmark

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Subject: 25.4742, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Denmark

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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:54:29
From: Guus Kroonen [guus at hum.ku.dk]
Subject: 15th Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group

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Full Title: 15th Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group 
Short Title: XV Nordic TAG 

Date: 16-Apr-2015 - 18-Apr-2015
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark 
Contact Person: Guus Kroonen
Meeting Email: guus at hum.ku.dk
Web Site: http://conferences.saxo.ku.dk/nordic-tag-2015/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

Section: Archaeology and Language – and the future of archaeo-linguistic studies

The questions we would like to raise in this section concern the future for ‘archaeo-linguistic’ research, what can we learn from each other and what kinds of research questions are in particular suitable for future integrated studies? The main goal of this session is to present new and ongoing studies that combine aspects of archaeology and linguistics, theoretical perspectives on the field of archaeo-linguistics and, hopefully, encourage new fruitful studies on archaeology and language.

Call for Papers:

This section invites papers that, in one way or the other, combine linguistics and archaeology in order to gain new knowledge on past societies. Linguistics and archaeology have a long research history in common that, among other things, includes place-name research, the recovery and decipherment of inscriptions in archaeological contexts, and studies on the spread of languages and languages families, most prominently the Indo-European group.

However, the unfavourable combination of culture historical theory, archaeological cultures, migrating peoples and search for the proto Indo-European homeland (Urheimat) that took place in the late 19th and early 20th century paused further studies on archaeology and language. For many archaeologists language is simply not an issue to consider, even when dealing with, for example, long-distance contact networks, formations of states and empires, ethnicity/identity and other social aspects of past societies. 

In recent decades, scholars such as Colin Renfrew, James P. Mallory, Kristian Kristiansen and David W. Anthony, have shown how studies on archaeology and language can be combined avoiding the culture-historical approach of earlier generations. Moreover, advances in archaeo-genetics are now starting to yield tangible results, showing that cultural innovations can indeed often be linked with the movement of people, and therefore potentially also with the spread of language.

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