Please share this widely among archaeologists interested in how archaeology can assist in the study of the origins of the Indo European languages.
Win Scutt (English Heritage) and Professor Marcel Otte (University of Liege) are seeking contributions to the following session at this year's European Association of Archaeologists conference to be held in Maastricht, Netherlands from 30th August to 3rd September 2017.
Title: Language in European Prehistory (Session #410)
How old is Indo European? What methods are suitable and appropriate for establishing an absolute chronology of Indo-European languages? To what extent can we use material culture, genetics or linguistics to do this?
This session will not only look at methodology but will also look at alternatives to the Kurgan Hypothesis, for example the Continuity Theory that places the origin of Indo European in the Palaeolithic; and the Farming/Language Hypothesis.
The Session will focus on the distribution and chronology of Indo-European languages in Eurasia from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age. Speakers will draw on a range of methods, including phylogenetic, toponymic, numismatic and historiographic to examine alternative models for the dating and dispersal of Indo-European languages.
The following speakers have already offered to present papers at the session and we have room for about six more : Professor Jean-Paul Demoule (Paris); Dr Peter Forster (Cambridge); Dr Daphne Nash-Briggs (Oxford); Professor Xaverio Ballaster (Valencia); Professor Marcel Otte (Liege); Win Scutt (English Heritage).
Please submit proposals for 15 minute papers to the EAA website at https://www.klinkhamergroup.com/eaa2017/sessions/contribution under Session #410 (within the Theme: Interpreting the archaeological record) and copy it to the session organisers (via Win Scutt [log in to unmask]) who are also happy to answer preliminary queries
Proposals need to be submitted no later than 23.59 Central European Time (that’s 22.59 current British time) 22nd March 2017 (Note that the submission deadline has been extended from 15th to 22nd March)
PLEASE NOTE that the conference organisers have confirmed that there is no need for those offering papers to pay registration in advance: but it is required that you register with contact details etc.
Win Scutt, Properties Curator (West), English Heritage
29 Queen Square, Bristol, BS1 4ND
Direct Line: 01179750708
Email: [log in to unmask]
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