Roger Blench: Archaeology and prehistory

Roger Blench: Papers in Archaeology and prehistory

Introduction

Title of paper	Status	Click to see PDF version or Powerpoint
Chapter IV in the Blackwell’s Companion to Archaeology, ed. J. Bintliff, 2004	Published	Archaeology and language

The ethnographic evidence for long-distance contacts between Oceania and East Africa. In: The Indian Ocean in Antiquity. Julian Reade (1996) ed. 417-438. London/New York: Kegan Paul International/ British Museum Press.	Published	East Africa and Indonesia

The Pleistocene settlement of the rim of the Indian Ocean. Paper presented at: 18th Congress Of The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Manila, March 2006	Unpublished	Pleistocene settlement

Using Ethnography To Reconstruct The Culture Of Early Modern Humans. Paper presented at the SAFA, Bergen 2004.	Unpublished	Early Modern Humans

West Africa and Indonesia	Unpublished	West Africa and Indonesia

Inter-Saharan hypothesis	Published	Inter-Saharan hypothesis

The Austronesian impact on the East African Coast. Paper presented at: 18th Congress Of The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Manila, March 2006.	In press	Austronesian impact

African agricultural tools: implications of synchronic ethnography for agrarian history. Paper presented at: 5^th International Workshop for African Archaeobotany, London, July 2006.	In press	African agricultural tools

Reconstructing the subsistence of the proto-Dogon. Powerpoint for SAFA 2006, Calgary June 22-26	Unpublished	Proto-Dogon

New palaezoogeographical evidence for the settlement of Madagascar. Paper given at the International Conference; The Maritime Heritage and Cultures of the Western Indian Ocean in Comparative Perspective. British Institute in Eastern Africa, British Museum & Zanzibar Department of Archives, Museums and Antiquities. House of Wonders, Wednesday 12^TH July. Azania special issue	Published	New evidence

Musical instruments of South Asian origin depicted on the reliefs at Angkor, Cambodia. Paper given at EURASEAA, Bougon, 26th September, 2006. Now submitted for the proceedings	in press	Paper

Re-evaluating the linguistic prehistory of South Asia. Presentation at the workshop: Landscape, demography and subsistence in prehistoric India: exploratory workshop on the middle Ganges and the Vindhyas. Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, 2-3 June, 2007.	Published	South Asia paper Conference images

Was there an interchange between Cushitic pastoralists and Khoesan speakers in the prehistory of Southern Africa and how can this be detected? International Colloquium Königswinter, March 28-30, 2007	in press	Draft Powerpoint Paper

Agriculture and phylic dispersals ; re-evaluating the evidence. Presented at the meeting ‘Us and Them: Modelling past genetic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries’. Bordeaux 15–17, May 2008	Unpublished	Farming dispersals

Bananas and plantains in Africa; re-interpreting the linguistic evidence. Precirculated for the session ‘Banana: the neglected history’ at WAC VI, Dublin June 28^th, 2008, convened by Edmond De Langhe, Tim Denham & Luc Vrydaghs	Unpublished	Musa