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SUMMARY:‘Archaeology and Language’ by James Clackson - James Clackson
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CONTACT:Vicki Harley
DESCRIPTION:Languages evolve over time\, and by comparing languages it is 
 possible to  reconstruct languages spoken thousands of years before the ad
 vent of  writing. The best studied of these reconstructed languages is cal
 led  ‘Proto-Indo-European’ and is the ancestor of most of the language
 s spoken in  Europe (except for Finnish\, Hungarian and Basque) as well as
  the languages  of Iran\, Pakistan and northern India. In this talk\, Jame
 s Clackson will  present different theories linguists and archaeologists h
 ave proposed about  the speakers of Proto-Indo-European—where they lived
 \, how they lived and why  their language eventually came to dominate so m
 uch of Eurasia. \n\nJames Clackson is a member of the Faculty of Classics\
 , University of  Cambridge. His latest book is ‘Language and Society in 
 the Greek and Roman  Worlds’ was published in 2015 by Cambridge Universi
 ty Press. \nDoors open 7.15 pm\; meeting begins 7.30 pm\n
LOCATION:Cottenham Village College
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