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Archaeology and Language

Colin Renfrew
Archaeology and Language Book PDF

Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521386756

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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.

Indo-European Origins

John V. Day
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Author : John V. Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111364571

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A comprehensive survey of the evidence from biological anthropology for Indo-European origins, based on the author¿s Ph.D. thesis prepared under Professor James Mallory. The author first considers the various ways that languages can spread and the possible biological implications of these expansions. He then embarks on an exhaustive survey of over 2,600 books and articles relating to the physical anthropology of the earliest identified speakers of Indo-European languages, based on ancient texts, artworks and lexicons. Covering Europe and Asia from the Neolithic onwards, His study surveys dermatoglyphics, mummified corpses, skeletal remains and genetic material for evidence of ancient population movements. An attempt is then made to integrate findings from biological anthropology with data from linguistics, archaeology and social anthropology to test the validity of migration theories in relation to the dispersal of the Indo-European languages and the possible location of a hypothecated proto-Indo-European language. The bibliography lists over 2,600 books and articles.

Tracing the Indo-Europeans

Birgit Anette Olsen,Thomas Olander,Kristian Kristiansen
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Author : Birgit Anette Olsen,Thomas Olander,Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789252712

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Tracing the Indo-Europeans by Birgit Anette Olsen,Thomas Olander,Kristian Kristiansen Pdf

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.

Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture

J. P. Mallory,Douglas Q. Adams
Encyclopedia of Indo European Culture Book PDF

Author : J. P. Mallory,Douglas Q. Adams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1884964982

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Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture by J. P. Mallory,Douglas Q. Adams Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture is a major new reference work that provides full, inclusive coverage of the major Indo-European language stocks, their origins, and the range of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language. The Encyclopedia also includes numerous entries on archaeological cultures having some relationship to the origin and dispersal of Indo-European groups -- as well as entries on some of the major issues in Indo-European cultural studies.There are two kinds of entries in the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture: a) those that are devoted to archaeology, culture, or the various Indo -European languages; and b) those that are devoted to the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European words.Entries may be accessed either via the General Index or the List of Topics: Entries by Category where all individual reconstructed head-forms can also be found. Reference may also be made to the Language Indices.In order to make the book as accessible as possible to the non-specialist, the Editors have provided a list of Abbreviations and Definitions, which includes a number of definitions of specialist terms (primarily linguistic) with which readers may not be acquainted. As the writing systems of many Indo-European groups vary considerably in terms of phonological representation, there is also included a list of Phonetic Definitions.With more than 700 entries, written by specialists from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture has become an essential reference text in this field.

The Indo-Europeans

Jean-Paul Demoule
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Author : Jean-Paul Demoule
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Archaeology and history
ISBN : 9780197506479

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The Indo-Europeans by Jean-Paul Demoule Pdf

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.

The Indo-European Controversy

Asya Pereltsvaig,Martin W. Lewis
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Author : Asya Pereltsvaig,Martin W. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054530

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The Indo-European Controversy by Asya Pereltsvaig,Martin W. Lewis Pdf

This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.

The Origin of Indo-European Languages

Franco Rendich
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Author : Franco Rendich
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503206408

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The Origin of Indo-European Languages by Franco Rendich Pdf

The hitherto unknown history of the formation of ancient Indo-European verb roots and their primary derivatives. From which, with particular phonetic variants described herein, are derived, over thousands of years, the words of Sanskrit, Greek and Latin.

The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Calvert Watkins
The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo European Roots Book PDF

Author : Calvert Watkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0618082506

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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Calvert Watkins Pdf

Discusses the nature, origins, and development of language and lists the meanings and associated word for more than thirteen thousand Indo-European root words.

The Origins of English Words

Joseph Twadell Shipley
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Author : Joseph Twadell Shipley
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780801896439

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The Origins of English Words by Joseph Twadell Shipley Pdf

Anecdotal, eclectic, and always enthusiastic, The Origins of English Words is a diverting expedition beyond linguistics into literature, history, folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and science.

From Indo-European to Latin

Helena Kurzová
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Author : Helena Kurzová
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277077

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From Indo-European to Latin by Helena Kurzová Pdf

This study aims to describe the typological characteristics of the original Indo-European structure, called the derivative-flectional stage (or (sub)type), and to trace its developments to the paradigmatically organized structure of the individual Indo-European languages, called the paradigmatic-flectional stage (or (sub)type). This development is demonstrated in Latin, a language characterized by highy developed inflection, which attests, especially by its verbal system, an alternative way of paradigmatizing the original structure, differing from Old Indian and Greek on which traditional reconstruction was based. The notion of derivative-flectional type is used to try to penetrate to the original form and historical sources of the IE flectional type without presupposing radical typological change between Proto-IE and IE. The author's view differs from the traditional theory of prehistoric change in IE structure (from isolation to flection via agglutination) in that she assumes the origins of flection lie in lexico-derivative categorization. The book is divided into three parts: 1. The Origins and Evolution of the Indo-European Flectional Type 2. The Basic Principles and Origins of the Nominal System and Inflections 3. The Indo-European Origins of the Latin Verbal System

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

David W. Anthony
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Author : David W. Anthony
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400831104

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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony Pdf

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange. He explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social change. Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the Indo-European languages and English--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.

The Origin of the Indo-Iranians

Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina
The Origin of the Indo Iranians Book PDF

Author : Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004160545

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The Origin of the Indo-Iranians by Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina Pdf

Here then is the fruit of Elena Kuz'mina's life-long quest for the Indo-Iranians. Already its predecessor ("Otkuda prishli indoarii?," published in 1994) was considered the most comprehensive analysis of the origins of the Indo-Iranians ever published, but in this new, significantly expanded edition (edited by J.P. Mallory) we find an encyclopaedic account of the Andronovo culture of Eurasia. Taking its evidence from archaeology, linguistics, ethnology, mythology, and physical anthropology pertaining to Indo-Iranian origins and expansions, it comprehensively covers the relationships of this culture with neighboring areas and cultures, and its role in the foundation of the Indo-Iranian peoples.

The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World

J. P. Mallory,D. Q. Adams
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Author : J. P. Mallory,D. Q. Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199287918

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The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World by J. P. Mallory,D. Q. Adams Pdf

The authors introduce Proto-Indo-European describing its construction and revealing the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago. Using archaeological evidence and natural history they reconstruct the lives, passions, culture, society and mythology of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

Indo-European and Indo-Europeans

George Cardona,Henry M. Hoenigswald,Alfred Senn
Indo European and Indo Europeans Book PDF

Author : George Cardona,Henry M. Hoenigswald,Alfred Senn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512801200

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Indo-European and Indo-Europeans by George Cardona,Henry M. Hoenigswald,Alfred Senn Pdf

Twenty-two internationally known linguists, anthropologists, and archaeologists discuss such questions as the original home of the Indo-Europeans, their migration, religiomythic beliefs, and legal customs in the most comprehensive treatment of Indo-European culture in recent times.

Origins of the Greek Verb

Andreas Willi
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Author : Andreas Willi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107195554

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Origins of the Greek Verb by Andreas Willi Pdf

This book traces the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language to the period of the first Greek texts.