Using language to date the origin and spread of food production Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology.

Roger Blench is Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute, London. Matthew Spriggs is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University, Canberra.

List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Preface, General introduction Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs, Introduction to Volume II Matthew Spriggs and Roger Blench, Part I Correlating archaeological and linguistic sequences, Part II Migration and expansion and their linguistic correlates: Eurasian case studies, Part III Linguistic models in reconstructing subsistence systems, Index