Archaeology and Linguistics in the Andes
Suggested
Interdisciplinary Reading
in preparation for the Cambridge and Lima Symposia
Recent specifically cross-disciplinary papers arising from our project include:
• A
brief, popularising but useful overview of our multi-disciplinary theme, and
progress achieved at the Cambridge Symposium:
download .pdf Not the Incas? Weaving
Archaeology and Language into a Single New Prehistory
Heggarty & Beresford-Jones 2009, British Academy Review
12: 11-15
• A two-part survey of the methods of historical linguistics as relevant to archaeology in general, and the prehistory of the Andes in particular:
– download .pdf Linguistics for archaeologists: principles, methods and the case of the Incas.
Heggarty 2007, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 17.3, 311-40.
– download .pdf Linguistics for archaeologists: a case-study in the Andes.
Heggarty 2008, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 18.1, 35-56.
• On
the general question of what archaeology might have to learn from historical
linguistics, the following paper takes the Andes as a case-study and sets out
the ‘Horizons as drivers of language expansions’ logic, particularly as applied
to the question of the nature of the Middle
Horizon:
What role for language prehistory
in redefining archaeological ‘culture’?
A case-study on new horizons in the Andes
Beresford-Jones
& Heggarty, forthcoming, in Roberts, Ben & Marc Vander Linden (eds.), Investigating
Archaeological Cultures: Material
Culture, Variability and Transmission.
New York: Springer.
[to request an advance copy, please email:
pah1003 AT cam.ac.uk]
• On
the formative period from the origins of
agriculture to the dawn of the Early Horizon:
Agriculture and Language
Dispersals: Limitations, Refinements,
and an Andean Exception?
Heggarty & Beresford-Jones,
forthcoming (2009), Current Anthropology
[to request an advance copy, please
email: pah1003 AT cam.ac.uk]
Many more specific papers by all participants at the Cambridge and London symposia, spanning the full span of the prehistoric and historical periods in the Andes, are currently under review for our proceedings volumes Archaeology and Language in the Andes, and History and Language in the Andes. Advance versions may be made available at the editors’ discretion and contingent on the permission of the author in each case. For any such particular requests, please email: pah1003 AT cam.ac.uk.
For linguists, established reference works and summary chapters giving overviews of the archaeology of the Andes, we suggest:
•
Andean
Archaeology, ed. H. Silverman, 2004 (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Press, includes many useful chapters, among them:
–
The First Settlers, by T.D.
Dillehay, D. Bonavia & P. Kaulicke, pp. 16-34
–
Knowing the Inca Past, by J. Hiltunen. & G.F. McEwan, pp. 237-54
–
Andean Empires,
by T. D’Altroy, & K. Schreiber, pp. 255-79.
• Burger, R.L. 1989. An overview of Peruvian Archaeology
(1976-1986). Annual Review of
Anthropology 18, pp. 37-69.
• Moseley, M. E. 1993.
The Incas and Their Ancestors.
London: Thames & Hudson.
For archaeologists, among established major works in Andean linguistics we suggest the following sections on associations with archaeology:
•
Adelaar, Willem
F.H., with Pieter C. Muysken, 2004. Languages
of the Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. pp. 165‑91 &
259‑67.
•
Cerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo, [1987] 2003. Lingüística quechua. Cuzco: Centro Bartolomé de las Casas. pp. 22 & 323-49.
•
Cerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo, 2000. Lingüística aimara. Cuzco: Centro Bartolomé de las Casas. pp. 273‑97.
•
Torero, Alfredo, 2002.
Idiomas de los Andes - Lingüística e Historia. Lima: Editorial Horizonte / Institut Français des
Études Andines. pp. 45‑52 & 123‑31.
•
Cerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo, 1995. La Lengua de Naimlap
(reconstrucción y obsolescencia del Mochica). Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú. pp. 1‑c.48.
For
participants who would like pointers to more
targeted reading to literature in the other discipline that has a bearing
on specific periods or regions that are their special interest, the organisers
will be happy to provide more tailored suggestions. Please email us at: pah1003 AT cam.ac.uk.