Princeton University Press, 2007. — xii + 553 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-05887-0. Winner of the 2010 Book Award, Society for American Archaeology. 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...
Translated by Sonia Wichmann. — The University of Chicago Press, 2006. — 354 p. — ISBN: 0-116-02860-7. Critically examining the discourse of Indo-European scholarship over the past two hundred years, Aryan Idols demonstrates how the interconnected concepts of “Indo-European” and “Aryan” as ethnic categories have been shaped by, and used for, various ideologies. Stefan Arvidsson...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 416 p. Myths of Origin: Europe and the Aryan Homeland Quest. Biblical Origins. India, the Cradle of Civilization. The Aryans and Colonial and Missionary Discourse. German Aryanism. Two Centuries of Homeland Theories. Present-Day Homeland Hypotheses. Early Indian Responses. Hindu Nationalist Responses. The First Reactions: Hindu Religious...
Simla, India: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1967. — 128 p. Chatterjee Suniti Kumar. Balts and Aryans: commonality of Indo-European roots (In English) When I was just out of school, in 1907, and was taking an interest at college in languages and linguistics, particularly in the languages related to Sanskrit, I was quite intrigued to read in different books and articles...
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd.; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1926. — 221 p. — (The History of Civilization). The startling discoveries in the Ancient East and the great progress made in the study of the prehistoric civilizations of Europe, and especially of Greece, seem to make the moment propitious for a fresh survey of the fascinating question as to the...
London: Logmans, Green, and Co., 1870. — 480 p. Popular Theories on the Origin and Growth of Mythology The Relation of Mythology to language The Source of Mythical Speech The Development of Myth Greek Notions Respecting the Moral Aspect of Mythology Theory of Greek Mythology as an Eclectic System The Diffusion of Myth ...
London: Logmans, Green, and Co., 1870. — 412 p. The Light. The Lost Treasure. The Fire. The Winds. The Waters. The Clouds. The Earth. The Under World. The Darkness.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988. — 257 p. — ISBN 0-69I-03592-X. When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence-historical, linguistic, and archaeological-to tackle these important questions. Origins of the...
Routledge, 2017. — 294 p. This book argues that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe essentially began shortly before 1600 BC, when lands rich in natural resources were taken over by military forces from the Eurasian steppe and from southern Caucasia. First were the copper and silver mines (along with good harbors) in Greece, and the copper and gold mines of the Carpathian basin....
New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1999. — 342 p. — ISBN 81-86471-77-4. The book discusses various aspects of the Indo-Aryan migration debate and concludes by proposing a chronological order for the events in the spread of Aryans Out of India. In the preface to the book, K. Elst writes that "it hurts to release a book in mid-debate, knowing that much of it will be dated by the time a...
Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 1995. — xxii, 417 p. — (Indian philology and South Asian studies; Vol. 1). — ISBN: 3-11-014447-6; ISSN: 0948-1923. A number of essays collected by a prominent theoretician of language and culture and a Sanskritologist, with contributions by Madhav Deshpande, Jim Shaffer, Arvind Sharma, Mark Kenoyer, Walter Fairservis, Asko Parpola and others....
Edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Karlene Jones-Bley. — Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 1997. — xix + 404 p. — (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph, No 18). — ISBN: 0-941694-56-9. Fifteen articles, 30 Maps, 102 Figures and 40 Tables make up this essential collection of papers by the famed Lithuanian-born Harvard and UCLA archaeologist, Marija Gimbutas....
Chelyabinsk: Rifei, 2002. — 496 p. — (Eurasian Ancient History; Volume I). — ISBN: 5-88521-151-5. The book is addressed to archaeologists, linguists, historians and specialists in ancient mythology. It is discussed the problems of the origins of people speaking Indo-European languages. It is based on archaeological evidence. The author believes that it is impossible to...
With annotation and comments by Douglas Q. Adams. — Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2013. — 14 p. — (Sino-Platonic Papers; 239). — ISSN: 2157-9679 (print), 2157-9687 (online). In 1989 and again in the period 2009–2012 Eric Hamp produced several hand-drawn Stammbäume to represent his understanding of the interrelationships of the various branches of Indo-European....
Strassburg: Verlag von Karl J. Trubner, 1905. — 407 S. In diesem Buche habe ich beabsichtigt, eine knappe Über sicht über die Urheimat und Kultur der Indogermanen zu geben. Um die Urheimat zu bestimmen, mussten die Sprachen Europas betrachtet und die Wanderungen der einzelnen Stämme kurz dargestellt werden. Die Kultur der Indogermanen aber ist die des prähistorischen Europas...
Strassburg: Verlag von Karl J. Trubner, 1907. — 382 S. Den Bemerkungen, die ich an die Spitze des ersten Bandes gestellt habe, brauche ich nur weniges hinzuzufügen. Die Fertigstellung und der Druck des zweiten Bandes hat noch ein Jahr in Anspruch genommen, und seitdem ist vielleicht manches erschienen, was hätte berücksichtigt werden können. Indessen erwies sich das als...
Nagpur: Sharangpani, Aryabhushan Press 1959. — xiv, 315 p. A cultural history of the Indo-Aryans from the Atharva Veda. The Atharva Veda of the Saunakiyas The Atharva Veda of the Paippaladas The Atharvan Civilization The Atharvan Ritual The Atharvan and the Trayi The Sages of the Atharva Veda
Institute for the Study of Man, 2000. — 490 p. — (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No. 36). This is much more than just solid, factual information about Odin and the people whose deity he was, for Odin was the god of the Einheriar, of the Germanic and Viking mannerbunde, the furor Teutonicus and the war bands of the great folk wandering that shaped so much of the map...
Leipzig: Verlag von Curt Kabitzsch, 1921. — VI, 79 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. — (Mannus-Bibliothek. No. 26). Sprachforschung und Urheimat. Rassenforschung. Urfinnen und Urindogermanen. Archäologie. Das Werden der Urindogermanen. Das werden der Vorfinnen und ihr Zurückweichen vor den Indogermanen. Vorfinnen und Urfinnen in Osteuropa. Die erste Spaltung des indogermanischen...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2007. — xviii, 762 p. — (Leiden Indo-European etymological dictionary series, v. 3). — ISBN: 9789004160545. Contents: The Andronovo cultural identity -- History of research on the Andronovo culture -- Methodological aspects of ethnocultural reconstruction -- Classification of sites and the primary features of Andronovo unity -- Settlements and domestic...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2007. — 766 p. — (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; Vol. 3). — ISSN: 1574-3586; ISBN: 978-90-04-16054-5. 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...
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2003. — 428 p. ISBN: 1-902937-09-0. ISSN: 1363-1349. Perhaps the most significant achievements of the symposium were: to bring into focus various points of view on Central Eurasian archaeology; to highlight the gaps in our knowledge; and to illustrate the differences in approach used by various scholars — differences which are at...
London: Thames And Hudson, 1991. – 289 p. By the first century A D historical records reveal peoples settled from the shores of the Atlantic to I ndia all speaking languages closely related to one another. These are the I ndo-European languages whose origins can be traced back to a common ancestor that was spoken in Eurasia some 6,000 years ago. We call the people who spoke...
Thames & Hudson; New edition edition (April 1, 1991), 288 p. With the skill of a forensic scientist, Dr. Mallory traces the immediate origins of each of the Indo-European peoples of Europe and Asia. By comparing their languages he demonstrates their common cultural heritage, and through the technique of comparative mythology he examines their earliest beliefs. J.P. Mallory is...
London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0-500-27616-1. What image do the Indo-Europeans conjure up? For mans it is one of horse-riding warriors sweeping out of Asia, spreading their languages and culture with each clash of the sword. Certainly, linguistic history shows that most of the peoples of Europe, Iran and India share a common ancient language known today as...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2015. — 64 p. — (Sino-Platonic Papers; 259). This study explores the problem of Tocharian origins in a series of stages, beginning with the archaeological identification of the historical Tocharians, the immediate antecedents of the historical Tocharians, the potential for identifying a source for the Tocharian languages outside the...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 760 p. This book introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it was reconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows what it reveals about the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago. Using related evidence from archeology and natural history the authors explore the lives, thoughts, passions, culture, society, economy,...
Thames & Hudson, 2000. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0-500-28372-1. With 190 illustrations, 13 in color. The best-preserved mummies in the world are not found in Egypt or Peru but in the museums of Xinjiang, the westernmost province of modern China. For thousands of years the occupants of the barren wastes and oases that would later become the Silk Road buried their dead in the...
Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company, 1888. — vi, 347 p. Types of mankind The home of the aryans The aryan outflow The aryans at home The household and the village The double system of aryan worship The course of political development The development of language The age of philosophy The aryan literature Other aryan characteristics Historical migrations The future status of human races
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 432 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–022690–9. Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 432 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–022690–9. Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind...
First draft. — Badajoz, Spain: Academia Prisca, 2017. — 74 p. This monograph is an evolving collection of papers relevant to the reconstruction of the language of a close community of speakers, demonstrated by recent genetic studies to be related to the peoples that expanded with the Yamna culture into central Europe, its transformation into the East Bell Beaker culture, and...
3rd edition, revised and updated (October 2017). — Badajoz, Spain: Universidad de Extremadura, 2017. — 191 p. Previous archaeological and linguistic theories have based the expansion of some Indo-European proto-languages on the spread of the Corded Ware cultures, under the influence of the Yamna horizon. Investigation of human ancestry of ancient and modern DNA samples have...
Penguin Books, 1989. - 346 p. - (Penguin History). — ISBN: 978-0140132762 (Missing p. 40). 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...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. — xiv + 346 p. — ISBN: 0-521-35432-3. In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking 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...
NY: Sceibnee and Welford, 1890. — xv, 486 p. The history of linguistic paleontology The beginnings of linguistic paleontology The reconstruction of the primitive indo-germanic period by means of language. Hypothetical divisions of the indo-europeans and their importance for the history of culture: with an appendix on loan-words in the indo-germanic languages. The search for the...
New York: Scribner & Welford, 1890. — 339 p. — (The Contemporary Science Series). A fine overview of early European racial anthropology, first published in a time before political correctness and leftist hatred suppressed the science. Taylor, the Canon of York, provides a comprehensive summary of the vexed issue of the origins of the Indo-European peoples. He points out that...
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. — xiii, 381 p. Soma: Divine Mushroom Of Immortality The Problem The Fly-agaric of Eurasia The Ground Rules of the Search Soma Was Not Alcoholic The Roots, Leaves, Blossoms, Seed of Soma: Where Are They? Soma Grew in the Mountains The Two Forms of Soma Epithets and Tropes for Soma in the RgVeda Soma and the Fly Words Used for Soma in the RgVeda...
Comments