Interface of Language and Archaeology: Excavating Cultural Past Through Extinct Vocabulary in Hindko of Hazara

Abstract

One of the attributes of human language is displacement. It means that humans can inflect language between past and future. The interface of language and archeology is interesting to recover and discover material and cultural past. The undertaken study attempts to clasp receding past by unveiling material objects through linguistic memory of the inhabitants. An ethnographic approach is applied by immersing in Hindko speaking areas of Hazara division to locate answers of the research questions. It is revealed that most of cultural heritage has speedily disappeared in past and old people are the only source to trace it. Data showed pre-globalization remnants of culture in pottery, wears, agriculture and food items where there was no access of modern means of preserving records. The study showed that interface of language and archeology can help a great deal to excavate cultural past by answering many archeological pursuits.`