Musings of a Palaeolinguist

I began this blog as a newly graduated MSc student (Master of science! How exciting!), fresh-faced and enthusiastic about a life in academia...

We've opened a new linguistics discussion forum and would love some new members!  Check us out at  http://linguistforum.com/index.php  (...

Fantastic painting by James Gurney A new article about language evolution has been published by the BBC, on Neanderthals and speech:  ht...

Over on my other blog, which receives far more attention than this one, I did an interview with a fellow Etsy seller who runs DiGgeek , ...

One of the questions I have now that I'm approaching the start of a PhD is about organization. I've written piddly little papers, a ...

It's done!  It's done and finished, a neat 7 page paper related to my proposed PhD topic, ready to be submitted to Evolang X .  But ...

I woke up with morning with a start - I'm late for site, everyone will have left without me!  But no, I'm back at home in Englan...

Both of these spellings (and pronunciations) are commonly found - is either more correct to use? In short, nope! Neanderthals get their ...

In a recent paper  (" On the antiquity of language: the reinterpretation of Neandertal linguistic capacities and its consequences"...

This post is part of a book launch tour for the release of The Vesuvius Isotope, a new book by drug discovery biologist Kristen Elise.  Thi...