World Language Prehistory – Paul Heggarty

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World Language Prehistory

The Linguistic Panorama of the World — And How It Came to Be

Directed and edited by leading archaeologists Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn, this encyclopaedic work surveys the prehistory of the world.

Alongside the predominant coverage of archaeology, a key innovation was to integrate that with full, coherent coverage of another perspective on the human past: the linguistic dimension.

The world survey is structured into seven macro-regions, prefaced by a global introduction to the concept of prehistory, and how to research it.

I was the primary author, alongside Renfrew, of all eight chapters on languages. Together they set out the broad-scale linguistic panorama of the globe, and what is known of how it came to be. In sum, they make for a coherent, book-length language prehistory of the world.

Publications

The eight chapters on languages within the Cambridge World Prehistory.

Publication Details

Heggarty, P., & Renfrew, C. 2014a.
Introduction: Languages.
in: Renfrew, C. & P. Bahn (eds)
The Cambridge World Prehistory, p.19–44.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139017831.004

Heggarty, P., & Renfrew, C. 2014b.
Africa: Languages.
in: Renfrew, C. & P. Bahn (eds)
The Cambridge World Prehistory, p.307–20.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139017831.021

Heggarty, P., & Renfrew, C. 2014c.
South and Island South-East Asia: Languages.
in: Renfrew, C. & P. Bahn (eds)
The Cambridge World Prehistory, p.534–58.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139017831.036

Heggarty, P., & Renfrew, C. 2014d.
The Pacific: Languages.
in: Renfrew, C. & P. Bahn (eds)
The Cambridge World Prehistory, p.674–90.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139017831.046

Heggarty, P., & Renfrew, C. 2014e.
East Asia: Languages.
in: Renfrew, C. & P. Bahn (eds)
The Cambridge World Prehistory, p.870–96.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139017831.059

Heggarty, P., & Renfrew, C. 2014f.
The Americas: Languages.
in: Renfrew, C. & P. Bahn (eds)
The Cambridge World Prehistory, p.1316–43.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139017831.084

Heggarty, P., & Renfrew, C. 2014g.
Western and Central Asia: Languages.
in: Renfrew, C. & P. Bahn (eds)
The Cambridge World Prehistory, p.1678–99.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139017831.101

Heggarty, P., & Renfrew, C. 2014h.
Europe and the Mediterranean: Languages.
in: Renfrew, C. & P. Bahn (eds)
The Cambridge World Prehistory, p.1977–93.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139017831.115