Language and Prehistory of the Indo- European Peoples
Author | : Adam Hyllested |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2017 |
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ISBN | : 9788763544214 |
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Author | : Adam Hyllested |
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Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2017 |
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ISBN | : 9788763544214 |
Author | : Colin Renfrew |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1990-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521386753 |
In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia and Ancient Persia, across Europe and the Indian subcontinent, to regions as remote as Sinkiang in China. Professor Renfrew initiates an original synthesis between modern historical linguistics and the new archaeology of cultural process, boldly proclaiming that it is time to reconsider questions of language origins and what they imply about ethnic affiliation--issues seriously discredited by the racial theorists of the 1920s and 1930s and, as a result, largely neglected since. Challenging many familiar beliefs, he comes to a new and persuasive conclusion: that primitive forms of the Indo-European language were spoken across Europe some thousands of years earlier than has previously been assumed.
Author | : J. P. Mallory |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Indo-European antiquities |
ISBN | : 9780500050521 |
Author | : Harold Herman Bender |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adam Hyllested |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : 9788763545310 |
Our knowledge of neolithic and bronze age Europe is growing rapidly, and this book offers a major contribution to our understanding of the language and history of the peoples of that period. The editors have taken a deliberately cross-disciplinary approach, bringing in historical linguists, archaeologists, geneticists, and more to both examine specific questions in the field and to analyze the basic methodology in use. The book is the result of a Scandinavian conference, the first dedicated to this approach to the field.
Author | : Jean-Paul Demoule |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Archaeology and history |
ISBN | : 019750647X |
The existence of an Indo-European linguistic family, allowing for the fact that several languages widely dispersed across Eurasia share numerous traits, has been demonstrated for several centuries now. But the underlying factors for this shared heritage have been fiercely debated by linguists, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. The leading theory, of which countless variations exist, argues that this similarity is best explained by the existence, at one given point in time and space, of a common language and corresponding population. This ancient, prehistoric, population would then have diffused across Eurasia, eventually leading to the variation observed in historical and modern times. The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West argues that despite its acceptance and use by most researchers from different disciplines, such a model is inherently flawed. This book describes how, beginning in the late eighteenth century, Europeans began a quest for a supposed original homeland, from which a small conquering people would one day spread out, bringing their language to Europe and parts of Asia (India, Iran, Afghanistan). This quest was often closely tied to ideological preoccupations and it was in its name that the Nazi leadership, claiming for the Germans the status of the purest Indo-Europeans (or Aryans), waged genocide. The last part of the book summarizes the current state of knowledge and current hypotheses in the fields of linguistics, archaeology, comparative mythology, and genetics. The culmination of three decades of research, this book offers a sweeping survey of the historiography of the Indo-European debate and poses a devastating challenge to the Indo-European origin story at its roots.
Author | : Carlos Quiles |
Publisher | : Indo-European Association |
Total Pages | : 793 |
Release | : 2011-05-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1461022134 |
A Grammar of Modern Indo-European is a complete reference guide to a living Indo-European language. It contains a comprehensive description of Proto-Indo-European grammar, and offers an analysis of the complexities of the prehistoric language and its reconstruction from its descendant languages. Written in a fresh and accessible style, and illustrated with maps, figures and tables, this book focusses on the real patterns of use of Late Indo-European. The book is well organised and is filled with full, clear explanations of areas of confusion and difficulty. It also contains an extensive English - Indo-European, Indo-European - English vocabulary, as well as detailed etymological notes, designed to provide readers with an easy access to the information they require.An essential reference source for the student of Indo-European as a learned and living language, this work will appeal to students of languages, classics, and the ancient world, as well as to general readers interested in the history of language, and in speaking the direct ancestor of the world's largest language family.
Author | : Asya Pereltsvaig |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1107054532 |
This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.
Author | : Thomas V. Gamkrelidze |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 1272 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110815036 |
“Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work, superbly translated from Russian, is a must for every student of Indo-European prehistory. Its erudition is unsurpassed, and its unorthodox conclusions are a continuing challenge.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
Author | : Birgit Anette Olsen |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2019-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789252717 |
Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx from the Pontic-Caspian steppes which without any reasonable doubt pinpoints the archaeological Yamnaya complex as the cradle of (Core-)Indo-European languages. Now, for the first time, when the preliminaries are clear, it is possible for the fields of genetics, archaeology and historical linguistics to cooperate in a constructive fashion to refine our knowledge of the Indo-European homeland, migrations, society and language. For the historical-comparative linguists, this opens up a wealth of exciting perspectives and new working fields in the intersections between linguistics and neighbouring disciplines, for the archaeologists and geneticists, on the other hand, the linguistic contributions help to endow the material findings with a voice from the past. The present selection of papers illustrate the importance of an open interdisciplinary discussion which will gradually help us in our quest of Tracing the Indo-Europeans.