{"id":913,"date":"2026-01-04T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulheggarty.info\/blog\/?page_id=913"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:05:02","slug":"across-disciplines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulheggarty.info\/blog\/across-disciplines\/","title":{"rendered":"Across Disciplines"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”5px” equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_color=”#f9f9f9″ scene_position=”center” top_padding=”2%” bottom_padding=”2%” left_padding_desktop=”1vw” constrain_group_2=”yes” right_padding_desktop=”1vw” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”projects” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.8″ 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Why Across Disciplines?<\/span><\/h2>\n
Humans have always striven to make sense of the past, and their own origins.\u00a0 Clues survive in many forms:\u00a0 documents left to historians, material culture uncovered by archaeologists;\u00a0 our immaterial that and the past languages linguists can partly reconstruct;<\/h6>\n
\u00a0but all of them offers only a very incomplete perspective, of whatever fragmented record of the past survives \u2014 whether in material culture left to archaeologists,\u00a0 or the immaterial that linguists can partly reconstruct;\u00a0 the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts.<\/h6>\n
My take emerges from linguistics, but the past record can only be properly understood in the context<\/h6>\n
As\u00a0 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.\u00a0 F<\/h6>\n
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Publications<\/span><\/h2>\n

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.\u00a0 See each of the more focused lists of my publications in the four subsections above:\u00a0 archaeology, genetics, history and world language prehistory.[\/nectar_responsive_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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