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

`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

• List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Preface, General introduction Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs, Introduction to Volume II Matthew Spriggs and Roger Blench, Part I Correlating archaeological and linguistic sequences, Part II Migration and expansion and their linguistic correlates: Eurasian case studies, Part III Linguistic models in reconstructing subsistence systems, Index

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

`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

• List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Preface, General introduction Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs, Introduction to Volume II Matthew Spriggs and Roger Blench, Part I Correlating archaeological and linguistic sequences, Part II Migration and expansion and their linguistic correlates: Eurasian case studies, Part III Linguistic models in reconstructing subsistence systems, Index

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

`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

• List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Preface, General introduction Roger Blench and Matthew Spriggs, Introduction to Volume II Matthew Spriggs and Roger Blench, Part I Correlating archaeological and linguistic sequences, Part II Migration and expansion and their linguistic correlates: Eurasian case studies, Part III Linguistic models in reconstructing subsistence systems, Index