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Language change and the material correlates of language and ethnic shift

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christopher Ehret*
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of California, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024–1473, USA

Abstract

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Type
Special section: Archaeology and Indo-European languages
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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