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Author : J. P. Mallory
Release : 1989
Genre : Indo-European antiquities
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Book Synopsis In search of the Indo-Europeans : language, archaeology and myth by : J. P. Mallory
Download or read book In search of the Indo-Europeans : language, archaeology and myth written by J. P. Mallory. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. P. Mallory
Release : 1989
Genre : Indo-European antiquities
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Book Synopsis In Search of the Indo-Europeans by : J. P. Mallory
Download or read book In Search of the Indo-Europeans written by J. P. Mallory. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Renfrew
Release : 1990-01-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Archaeology and Language by : Colin Renfrew
Download or read book Archaeology and Language written by Colin Renfrew. This book was released on 1990-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Birgit Anette Olsen
Release : 2019-08-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 717/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tracing the Indo-Europeans by : Birgit Anette Olsen
Download or read book Tracing the Indo-Europeans written by Birgit Anette Olsen. This book was released on 2019-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Stefan Arvidsson
Release : 2006-09-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Aryan Idols by : Stefan Arvidsson
Download or read book Aryan Idols written by Stefan Arvidsson. This book was released on 2006-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 traces the evolution of the Aryan idea through the nineteenth century—from its roots in Bible-based classifications and William Jones’s discovery of commonalities among Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek to its use by scholars in fields such as archaeology, anthropology, folklore, comparative religion, and history. Along the way, Arvidsson maps out the changing ways in which Aryans were imagined and relates such shifts to social, historical, and political processes. Considering the developments of the twentieth century, Arvidsson focuses on the adoption of Indo-European scholarship (or pseudoscholarship) by the Nazis and by Fascist Catholics. A wide-ranging discussion of the intellectual history of the past two centuries, Aryan Idols links the pervasive idea of the Indo-European people to major scientific, philosophical, and political developments of the times, while raising important questions about the nature of scholarship as well.
