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Fri 16 Sep 1994

Confs: Language Theme at World Archaeological Congress - 3

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1. "S.T.Champion", Language Theme at WAC

 WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS - 3

WAC is a global archaeological organisation which attempts to get
full participation from third and fourth world archaeologists and
related professionals who frequently do not have the resources to
get to major conferences; and we rely on a certain level of input
from those in institutions who can get help with the conference fees
to make the conference economically viable and therefore able to
assist the attendance of delegates from less well-resourced institutions.
Over 1500 people are already registered.


YOU ARE STILL NOT TOO LATE TO PARTICIPATE (EITHER BY GIVING A PAPER OR
JOINING IN FOUR AND A HALF DAYS OF DISCUSSION) IN THE FOLLOWING ACADEMIC
PROGRAMME, TAKING PLACE IN NEW DELHI ON 4th-11th DECEMBER, 1994.

 LANGUAGE, ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT:

* Vanessa Balloqui *
* World Archaeological Congress - 3, *
* Department of Archaeology *
* University of Southampton, Highfield *
* Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK *
* Tel: (+44) (703) 594725 *
* Fax: (+44) (703) 593868 *
* Email: V.H.Balloquisouthampton.ac.uk *

All the following are expected in Delhi (unless otherwise indicated):

RELATING ARCHAEOLOGY AND LANGUAGE: the relationship
between "language" and "culture", the origins and evolution of
language, processes of linguistic change and their archaeological
implications.

The Biology and Origins of Language: a session concerned both
with the origin of language and its biological and psychological
correlates.

 AGRAWAL, D.P. (India) - Tool Making and Language in Human
Evolution
 BHATIA, K. K. (Australia) - Genetic Diversity of Austronesian
(AN) and Non-Austronesian (NAN) Speaking Populations of the
Pacific
 BICHAKJIAN, B. H. (Holland) - Evolution and the Biological
Correlates of Linguistic Features
 BOUISSAC, P. A. (Canada) - New Epistemological Perspectives for
the Archaeology of Writing
 CANN, R. (USA) - Polynesians and Micronesians: are they the same?
 GYORI, G. (Hungary) - Cognitive Archaeology: a look at evolution
outside and inside language
 KAUL, V. (India) - Biological Variation in eastern India
 SHITEMI, N. L. (Kenya) - Human Genealogies for Language
Groupings: the case of a subgroup of the Abaluhya of western Kenya

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Methods: a session which considers innovative methods of looking
at the relatedness of languages.

 ANWARD, J. and OESTEN, D. (Sweden) - Studying Linguistic
Prehistory through Language Typology: a case study of
inclusive/exclusive pronouns
 GIL, D. (Singapore) - Syntactic Categories and the Evolution of
Language
 GREEN, R. D. (French Polynesia) - Statistical Analysis of the
Vocabulary of Indo-European Languages: basic methods and results
 JONES, G. & GRAY, R. (New Zealand) - Phylogenetic Analyses of
Polynesian Languages
 PATRICK, J. and RAMAN, A. (New Zealand) - Linguistic Divergence
Measures Based on Models of Diachronic Change
 PEJROS, I. (Australia) - Is Correlation between Linguistic and
Archaeological Reconstruction Possible?
 SHNIRELMAN, V. (Russia) - Linguoarchaeology: goals, advances and
limits

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Language and Migration: a session which examines the
archaeological evidence for migrations and the interpretative
framework and methodological pitfalls of linking linguistic
geography and human migration.

 DAS, S. (India) - Some Linguistic Evidence for Early Dravidian
Settlement in Bengal
 EVANS, N. and McCONVELL, P. (Australia) - Pama-Nyungan Expansion
in Australia
 HINES, J. (UK) - The Migration Period and the Origins of English
 KASTENHOLZ, R. (Germany) - Linguistic evidence for the migration
of Mande-speaking minorities in northeastern Ivory Coast and Ghana
 LEGER, R. (Germany) - Early Migrations of Proto-Chadic Speaking
Communities
 NURSE, D. (Canada) - Shungwaya: re-examining a migration myth
in Kenya, and its history, in view of new archaeological data
(Paper only)
 WICHMANN, S. (Denmark) - Growth and Structure of the Mixe-Zoquean
Vocabulary

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Macrophyla: this session considers proposals to unite families
into groupings larger than generally accepted phyla.

 DOLGOPOLSKY, A. (Israel) - External Relations of Afroasiatic
 HEGEDUS, I. (USA) - Principles for Palaeolinguistic
Reconstruction
 KAK, S. C. (USA) - On Language Families and the Indo-Aryan
Problem
 RENFREW, C. (UK) - World Linguistic Diversity and Relationships
with Agricultural Dispersals

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Dating Language Spread and Change: this session examines the
rationales for notions of the speed of language change, including
glottochronology and the calibration of linguistic change to
radiocarbon dates etc.

 ALLAOUI, M. (Comores) - Des Mots et des Signes ou une Lecture
Litteraire du Site Archologique de Mwali-Mdjini
 BANERJEE, S. K. (India) - Language and Dating: a preamble to
Tibeto-Burman languages
 BOWDLER, S. (Australia) - The Silence of Stones
 MAHDI, W. (Germany) - Some Linguistic and Philological Data
Towards a Chronologization of Austronesian Activity in India and
Sri Lanka
 ROSS, M. (Australia) - How Linguists Sequence Events: some
Oceanic examples
 SPRIGGS, M. (Australia) - From Taiwan to the Tuamotus: absolute
dating of Austronesian language spread and major subgroups

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Language and Society: Variation and Change: this sub-theme
includes topics such as language diversity, trade languages,
pidgins and creoles, language levelling, language switch and
obsolescence.

 LYNCH, J. (Vanuatu) - Language Change in Southern Oceania: major
surgery or just a facelift?
 MUKHERJEE, D. (Malaysia) - Bahasa or Bhasha? Ethnic identity
and language diversity among immigrant Malaysian-Bengali women
 OHIRI-ANICHE, C. (Nigeria) - Language Diversification in the
Akoko Area of western Nigeria
 OTTE, M. (Belgium) - Diffusion des Langues Modernes en Eurasie
Prehistorique
 SERAFIM, L. A. (USA) - Japonic Never Creolized: conditions for
creolization and other types of language contact in the spread
of Japonic to the Japanese archipelago
 SHITEMI, N. L. (Kenya) - Pidginization: sheng, the melting pot
of Kenyan languages and an anti-Babel development
 SHITEMI, N. L. (Kenya) - A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis
of Kiswahili Language Spread and Change
 SOMMER, G. (Germany) - Gradual Language Shift Among the Yei of
Ngamiland (Botswana)
 TRYON, D. (Australia) - Language and Dialect Networks in Vanuatu

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Proto-Lexicons: a session which examines how far linguistics can
be used to reconstruct vocabularies relating to the "homeland"
of particular language families, and to the subsistence practices
of the speakers of reconstructed proto-languages.

 ALINEI, M. (Italy) - Archaeological Frontiers and Dialect
Isotopes: new evidence for Renfrew's theory (Paper only)
 BLUST, R. (USA) - Austronesian Prehistory
 HIGHAM, C. F. W. (New Zealand) - The Austric Hypothesis and the
Neolithic of East and Southeast Asia
 NAPOLSKIKH, V. (Russia) - The Uralic Original Home: language,
culture, race and archaeology
 OREL, V. (Israel) - Reconstructing the Homeland of
Proto-Afroasiatic
 PEJROS, I. (Australia) and SHNIRELMAN, V. (Russia) - Rice in
Southeast Asia: regional interdisciplinary research
 VOVIN, A. (USA) - Japanese Rice Agriculture Terminology and
Linguistic Affiliation of Yayoi Culture

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Geographically-Informative Semantic Fields: a session which
examines how animal and fish names, flora and meteorological
terms, combined with toponymy, can help place the locations of
particular language stages or can show connections between areas.

 BLENCH, R. (UK) - Crabs, Turtles and Frogs in African Prehistory
 CONNELL, B. (Canada) - Yams and Palms in the Cross River Region
of Nigeria
 DEMOLIN, D. (Belgium) - Ethno-Ornithology and the Settlement of
the Kibali-Ituri Region of Zaire
 ELUGBE, B. (Nigeria) - The Niger River in Languages of
Southwestern Nigeria and its Application to Interpreting Yoruba
Origins
 HOMBERT, J-M. (France) - Ethnoicthyology and Bantu Migration
 KOCHHAR, R. (India) - On the Identity and Chronology of the
Rigvedic Sarasvati
 RADIMILAHY, C. M. de (Madagascar) - Toponymie et Archologie
 SHARPE, M. C. and TUNBRIDGE, D. (Australia) - Extinct Animals
and Changing Sea-Levels: evidence from linguistic and
ethnographic research
 WILLIAMSON, K. (Nigeria) - Linguistic Hypotheses on the
Introduction and Spread of the Domestic Fowl in West-Central
Africa

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Oral Traditions, Myths and Archaeology: a session which considers
traditions and myths of origin and other methods of
self-perception in relation to archaeology and language.

 ALLIBERT, C. (France) - The archaeology of knowledge concerning
Austronesian influences in the Western Indian Ocean
 BOINA, A. (Comores) - Les Interferences de l'Archologie et des
Traditions Orales: le site de Mwali-Mdjini
 CHAZINE, J-M. (France) - Myths and Archaeological Evidence in
East Polynesia
 EBOREIME J. (Nigeria) - Oral Traditions and the Prehistory of
the Edo-speaking people
 FRIMIGACCI, D. (France) - Puhi, un Roi Mythique d'Uvea: relations
anciennes entre Uvea et Tonga
 GARANGER, J. (France) - Oral Traditions and Archaeology in
Vanuatu and French Polynesia
 RAMILISONINA (Madagascar) - Archologie, Premier Peuplement de
Madagascar et Tradition Orale
 ZACHRISSON, I. (Sweden) - Oral Traditions, Archaeology and
Language: the early history of the Saami in Scandinavia
 ZUCCHI, A. (Venezuela) - Linguistic, Ethnological and
Archaeological Evidence for a New Model on the Expansion of
Northern Maipuran Groups in South America

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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LANGUAGE REGIONS: a series of case
studies bringing in the methodological concerns of earlier
sub-themes and a summing up of the major theme. It will also
give the opportunity to present more specialist papers relating
to particular language groups.

East Asia
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 BARNES, G. (UK) - The Interface of the Yamato State and the
Aboriginal Peoples of Japan
 BENEDICT, P. (USA) - Farmers, Sailors and Warriors: an early
China scenario
 NARAIN, A. K. (India) - Archaeology, History and Language of the
Yuezhi-Tochari Movements
 VAN DRIEM, G. (Holland) - The Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of
Bhutan
 SKRIBNIK, E. and SHIROBOKOVA, N. N. (Russia) - Substrata and the
Traces of Former Language Unions in Siberia

Europe/West Asia
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 BLAZEK, V. (Czech Republic) - Elam: a bridge between ancient
Near East and Dravidian India?
 COSMOPOULOS, M. (Canada) - From Artifacts to Peoples: Pelasgoi,
Indo-Europeans and the arrival of the Greeks
 HONTI, L. (Holland) - On Problems of Suffix and Word-Order in
Proto-Uralic
 KIRIPOVA, L. (Siberia) - (Title awaited)
 KORYAKOVA, L. (Russia) - Cultural Relationships in Northern
Eurasia (Bronze and Iron Age)
 KRELL, K. S. (Canada) - Gimbutas' Kurgan-PIE Homeland Hypothesis:
a linguistic critique
 MALLORY, J. P. (UK) - The Homelands of the Indo-Europeans

India
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 GUPTA, S. P. (India) - The Myth of the "Aryan People" and "Aryan
Language" Movement from west to east of the Indus in the 2nd
Millennium B.C.: an assessment
 KASHYAP, P. C. (India) - Pre-Rigvedic and Early Rigvedic History:
Western Himalayas - the workshop
 MEHENDALE, M. A. (India) - Were the Speakers of Old Indo-Aryan
Natives of India?
 MISRA, S. S. (India) - Original Home of the Aryans: a
reconsideration from fresh linguistic evidence
 NARAIN, A. K. (India) - A Case Study of the Soma-Drinking Sakas:
their Central Asian and Vedic linkages
 NAPOLSKIKH, V. (Russia) - Uralic and Tokharian: language,
culture, race and archaeology
 PARPOLA, A. (Finland) - Formation of the Aryan Branch of
Indo-European
 PARPOLA, A. (Finland) - Formation of the Dravidian family of
languages: correlating the textual-linguistic and archaeological
evidence
 PATHAK, P. V. (India) - Geo-Cultural Scenarios and the Vedic
Texts
 SOUNDARARAJAN, K. V. (India) - The Dravidian Problem and the
Archaeology of Tamil Nadu: known data and gaps in evidentiary
information
 RAO, S. R. (India) - Indo-Aryans in Harappan Settlements
 SHENDGE, M. J. (India) - The Indo-European Postulate: a review
from the Indian end
 SINHA, B. P. (India) - Who were the Harappans?
 SOULE, M. (Comores) - La Periode Classique de Mwali Mdjini:
reevaluation archeologique

Oceania
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 BELLWOOD, P. (Australia) - The Archaeology of Papuan and
Austronesian Prehistory in the Northern Moluccas, Eastern
Indonesia
 DUTTON, T. (Australia) - Going to Pots: fine tuning the
prehistory of Mailu Island, southeast Papua New Guinea
 LYNCH, J. and TEPAHAE, P. (Vanuatu) - Digging Up the Linguistic
Past: the lost language(s) of Aneityum, Vanuatu
 TAKI, J. and TRYON, D. (Australia) - The Lost Languages of
Erromango, Vanuatu

Africa
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 ARGYLE, J. (South Africa) - Who were the BaTwa? Reflections on
the identities of the pre-Bantu inhabitants of eastern and
southern Africa
 BLENCH, R. (UK) - Recent Research on African Language Phyla
 DEMOLIN, D. (Belgium) and KANIMBA, M. (Zaire) - Archaeological
and Linguistic Research in the Northeast of Zaire
 HORTON, M. (UK) - Swahili Ethnogenesis and Language: an
archaeological perspective
 KEUTHMANN, K. and VOSSEN, R. (Germany) - Aspects of Early Khoe
Economic Activities: Parts I, II
 LONGTAU, S. R. (Nigeria) - The Prehistory of Central Nigeria:
evidence from new research on its linguistic geography
 LOUALI, N. (France) - Berber Comparative Linguistics and
Prehistory: the state of the art and new developments
 MacDONALD, K. C. (UK) - Archaeology, Language and the Peopling
of the Middle Niger: a consideration of the evidence
 WALSH, M. (Zanzibar) - The Anthropology of Azania: linguistic and
ethnographic hypotheses