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Heggarty, P., Beresford-Jones, D. (2014). Farming-Language Dispersals: A Worldwide Survey. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2308
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