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The Linguistic Prehistory Of Australia: Opportunities For Dialogue With Archaeology

McConvel, Patrick·1990·Australian Archaeology
DOI 10.1080/03122417.1990.11681384
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Both linguistic and archaeological work in Australia have made great strides in the last twenty years. However, these developments have occurred in each discipline in isolation from, and largely in ignorance of, the methods and results of the other discipline. This situation is ripe for change: the links between the disciplines are demanding attention in order to answer questions about Australian prehistory emerging in both. Recent archaeology has drawn more and more on anthropology and social theory, and historical linguistics has begun to attune itself to the advances in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. By means of this bridge through anthropology, the divide between archaeology and linguistics can now be crossed and a common language- or at least a measure of bilingualism- can develop within the disciplines, in order jointly to construct models of social, cultural and linguistic change. Some of the work on Australian prehistory using linguistic evidence has been 'speculative ' in the bad sense which Sapir (1 916) applied the term to his predecessors in both evolutionist and diffusionist anthropology. The publication of such work has tended to make sceptical Australianists develop a closed mind about whether valid inferences can be drawn from historical linguistic research at all. irrespective of whether good or bad methods are used

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Authors
McConvel, P.
Venue
Australian Archaeology
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
1990-01
Volume
31
Issue
1
Pages
3-27
ISSN
  • 0312-2417
  • 2470-0363
DOI
10.1080/03122417.1990.11681384
Cited by
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