Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Andersen, Henning); 3. Indo-European; 4. Stratum and shadow: A genealogy of stratigraphy theories from the Indo-European West (by Mees, Bernard); 5. Slavic and the Indo-European migrations (by Andersen, Henning); 6. The development of the perfect in Indo-European: Stratigraphic evidence of prehistoric areal influence (by Drinka, Bridget); 7. Africa; 8. Stratigraphy in African historical linguistics (by Ehret, Christopher); 9. Stratigraphy and prehistory: Bantu Zone F (by Masele, B.F.Y.P.); 10. Language contacts in Nilo-Saharan prehistory (by Ehret, Christopher); 11. Southeast Asia; 12. Evidence for Austroasiatic strata in Thai (by Diller, Anthony); 13. Australia; 14. Millers and mullers: The archaeo-linguistic stratigraphy of technological change in holocene Australia (by McConvell, Patrick); 15. Oceania; 16. Loanword strata in Rotuman (by Schmidt, Hans); 17. Japan; 18. Substratum and adstratum in prehistoric Japanese (by Unger, J. Marshall); 19. Meso-America; 20. Uto-Aztecan in the linguistic stratigraphy of Mesoamerican prehistory (by Dakin, Karen); 21. Language Index

Reviews

[...] offers refreshing new approaches to the methodology of linguistic stratigraphy.
*Adam Hyllested, in Acta Linguistica, Vol. 36-2004*