Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- General introduction -- Introducing the papers -- Part I Linguistic models in reconstructing material culture -- 1 Early Oceanic architectural forms and settlement patterns: linguistic, archaeological and ethnological perspectives -- 2 From pots to people: fine-tuning the prehistory of Mailu Island and neighbouring coast, south-east Papua New Guinea -- 3 Language, culture and archaeology in Vanuatu -- 4 Linguistics versus archaeology: early Austronesian terms for metals -- 5 The dispersal of Austronesian boat forms in the Indian Ocean -- 6 The formation of the Aryan branch if Indo-European -- Part II Interpreting text -- 7 The language of death in a bilingual community: nineteenth-century memorials in Newport, Pembrokeshire -- 8 The pre-Classical circum-Mediterranean world: who spoke which languages? -- 9 From artifacts to peoples: Pelasgoi, Indo-Europeans and the arrival of the Greeks -- 10 On the identity and chronology of the Ṛgvedic river Sarasvatī -- 11 The archaeology of knowledge: Austronesian influences in the western Indian Ocean -- 12 Digging up the linguistic past: the lost language(s) of Aneityum, Vanuatu -- Index.