"Linguist too frequently and too adroitly, assign languages to archaeological cultures, while archaeologists are often too quick to assign their sherds a language."
— Archaeology

January 1, 1970

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND LANGUAGE The case of the Bronze Age Indo-Iranians, by Carl C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, in : Bryant, E. F., & Patton, L. L. (2005). The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge. 171-2