premise: Nevertheless, good books on archaeology assimilable by laymen are not easy to find, and if the reader can tolerate its shortcomings and is not overly concerned about the precise birthplace of Indo-European, Archaelogy  and  Language provides an interesting march through the millennia of prehistory in seven-league boots.
hypothesis: Archaelogy and Language is not the ideal book for someone who wants to know the precise birthplace of Indo-European.