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Research Highlights

Paul Heggarty

Tres Cruces
Symposia

Symposia

An ongoing series of conferences and symposia, uniquely interdisciplinary to bring together archaeologists, geneticists, linguists, historians, anthropologists and climatologists, for a more holistic view of the (pre)history of the civilisation of the Andes.
World Language Prehistory

World Language Prehistory

This monumental work, edited by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn, surveys the prehistory of the world, structured into seven macro-regions, and a global, methodological introduction. I was the primary author, alongside Colin Renfrew, of all eight chapters on languages, which together comprise a language prehistory of the world.

How Our Languages Help Understand Our Origins

— from the Indo-European World to the Andes

Humans have always striven to make sense of the past, and their own origins.  Clues survive in many forms:  documents left to historians, material culture uncovered by archaeologists;  our immaterial that and the past languages linguists can partly reconstruct;
 but all of them offers only a very incomplete perspective, of whatever fragmented record of the past survives — whether in material culture left to archaeologists,  or the immaterial that linguists can partly reconstruct;  the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts.
My take emerges from linguistics, but the past record can only be properly understood in the context
As  these have long since parted ways as each discipline developed and refined its own very different techniques of the Andes runs back through many millennia of prehistory.  F

Publications

Although always with one foot in the rich potential of language, most of my publications also delve deeply into one or more of the other disciplines of (pre)history, especially archaeology and genetics.  See each of the more focused lists of my publications in the four subsections above:  archaeology, genetics, history and world language prehistory.