Digging for Words Archaeolinguistic Case Studies from the XV Nordic TAG Conference Held at the University of Copenhagen, 16-18 April 2015

This volumeoffers a selection of case studies on the interface between linguistics andarchaeology. These case studies were presented at a session titled 'Archaeologyand Language' at the XV Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference,held at the University of Copenhagen in April 2015. The main goal of thesession was to present new and ongoing studies that combine aspects ofarchaeology and linguistics and theoretical perspectives on the field ofarchaeolinguistics, and to encourage new, fruitful studies on archaeology andlanguage. The questions raised in this session concern the future ofarchaeolinguistic research. What can archaeologists and linguists learn fromeach other's disciplines? What kind of research questions are particularly suitablefor future integrated studies?