Archaeology and language in a historical context: the creation of English: John Hines

In research that combines language, anthropology and archaeology, the lion's share ofwork is concerned with prehistory. There is a widespread interest in the great language families: the phyla and macrophyla that can be reconstructed on the basis of more or less consistent lexical and phonological correspondences between known languages and whose reconstruction appears to reveal or imply patterns in long-past human population movement as well as providing evidence of the early human environment, both natural and cultural.