On the connection between archaeological and linguistic evidence

Archaeologists and linguists sometimes issue decrees that the result
of the other discipline is irrelevant to those of their own. The other
day I read such a statement by an archaeologist. As proof he offered
the observation that if material culture and etnicity were correlated
then, since the population of the Roman empire switched from cremation
to inhumation burial in the 2nd cent. CE, he would have had to assume
a similar switch in the ethnic makeup of the Roman population.

Aha.


Torsten