Roger Blench is Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute. Matthew Spriggs is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University.

`Most of the papers are very good, and some are excellent and represent seminal reading.' - Cambridge Archaeological Journal`a coherent overview of an important topic which has been long ignored and/or often disparaged.' - Antiquity, September 1999.'I am very pleased to see this series in press, and I congratulate the editors on their achievement.' - Journal of Linguistics

• Archaeology and Language I: Theorectical and methodological orientations. Volume I. Theoretical and methodological orientations. Preface Part 1. Prehistory of Language Part 2. Deep-level linkages/hypotheses Part 3. Problems of Method Part 4. Oral traditions

Roger Blench is Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute. Matthew Spriggs is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University.

`Most of the papers are very good, and some are excellent and represent seminal reading.' - Cambridge Archaeological Journal`a coherent overview of an important topic which has been long ignored and/or often disparaged.' - Antiquity, September 1999.'I am very pleased to see this series in press, and I congratulate the editors on their achievement.' - Journal of Linguistics

• Archaeology and Language I: Theorectical and methodological orientations. Volume I. Theoretical and methodological orientations. Preface Part 1. Prehistory of Language Part 2. Deep-level linkages/hypotheses Part 3. Problems of Method Part 4. Oral traditions

Roger Blench is Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute. Matthew Spriggs is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University.

`Most of the papers are very good, and some are excellent and represent seminal reading.' - Cambridge Archaeological Journal`a coherent overview of an important topic which has been long ignored and/or often disparaged.' - Antiquity, September 1999.'I am very pleased to see this series in press, and I congratulate the editors on their achievement.' - Journal of Linguistics

• Archaeology and Language I: Theorectical and methodological orientations. Volume I. Theoretical and methodological orientations. Preface Part 1. Prehistory of Language Part 2. Deep-level linkages/hypotheses Part 3. Problems of Method Part 4. Oral traditions