"Contemporary methodologies, linguistic or archaeological, for determining the spoken language of a remote archaeologi…"

"Linguists too often assign languages to archaeological cultures, while archaeologists are often too quick to assign t…"

"Denis Sinor (1999:396), a distinguished linguist and historian of Central Asia, takes a position that more might cons…"

"Linguists cannot associate an archaeological culture with words, syntax, and grammar, and archaeologists cannot make …"

"In the context of a renewed fashion of relating archaeology, culture, and language it is well to remember that neithe…"

"It has yet to be demonstrated that language expansions can be traced through similarities in material culture or that…"

"A question therefore arises: what is the relevance of archaeological material if any sort of assemblage present at th…"

"Examples could be multiplied to show that language, long held to be the main, if not the sole, differentiating mark o…"

"This thesis will receive—and has already received—cheers from dilettantes. Dilettantes desperately need one thing: th…"

"We must not make the mistake of confusing our methods, and the results flowing from them, with the facts; we must not…"