Just published! Archaeology and Language in the Andes eds. Heggarty and Beresford-Jones

We're delighted to announce the publication of Archaeology and Language in the Andes (Proceedings of the British Academy 173, Oxford University Press), edited by Paul Heggarty and David Beresford-Jones.

Building on a McDonald Institute tradition, Archaeology and Language in the Andes serves to fill a cross-disciplinary lacuna, particularly acute in research on Andean prehistory.It emerges from a symposium, held at the McDonald Institute in September 2008, and co-funded by the British Academy's UK-Latin American links programme and the McDonald Institute.The goal was to achieve a long overdue meeting of minds among leading scholars of Andean archaeology, history and linguistics.The book brings together their contributions: from the linguists Adelaar (Leiden), Cerrón-Palomino(PUCP, Lima), Heggarty (MPI-EVA, Leipzig; formerly McDonald Institute) and Muysken (Radboud, Nijmegen);and from the archaeologists Beresford-Jones (McDonald Institute), Burger (Yale), DeMarrrais (Cambridge), Hocquenghem (CNRS, Paris), Isbell (Binghamton, New York), Kaulicke (PUCP, Lima), Lau (SRU, UEA),McEwan (Wagner College, New York), Renfrew (McDonald Institute), Sillar (UCL) and Urton (Harvard).

Archaeology and Language in the Andes complements two sister volumes History and Language in the Andes (edited by Heggarty and Pearce, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Lenguas y sociedades en el antiguo Perú (edited by Kaulicke, Cerrón-Palomino, Heggarty and Beresford-Jones, PUCP Lima, 2011).In all three, archaeologists, historians and linguists are at last converging their disparate perspectives into a true cross-disciplinary focus, to weave together a more coherent account of what was, after all, one and the same Andean past.