Language-tree Divergence Times Support the Anatolian Theory of Indo-European Origin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language-tree Divergence Times Support the Anatolian Theory of Indo-European Origin write by Gray, Russell D.. This book was released on 2003-11-27. Language-tree Divergence Times Support the Anatolian Theory of Indo-European Origin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Archaeology and Language
Archaeology and Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archaeology and Language write by Colin Renfrew. This book was released on 1990-01-26. Archaeology and Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Tracing the Indo-Europeans
Tracing the Indo-Europeans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracing the Indo-Europeans write by Birgit Anette Olsen. This book was released on 2019-08-23. Tracing the Indo-Europeans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Dispersals and Diversification
Dispersals and Diversification - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dispersals and Diversification write by . This book was released on 2019-12-16. Dispersals and Diversification available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dispersals and diversification offers linguistic and archaeological perspectives on the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Two chapters discuss the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European from an archaeological perspective, integrating and interpreting the new evidence from ancient DNA. Six chapters analyse the intricate relationship between the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, probably the first one to separate, and the remaining branches. Three chapters are concerned with the most important unsolved problems of Indo-European subgrouping, namely the status of the postulated Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian subgroups. Two chapters discuss methodological problems with linguistic subgrouping and with the attempt to correlate linguistics and archaeology. Contributors are David W. Anthony, Rasmus Bjørn, José L. García Ramón, Riccardo Ginevra, Adam Hyllested, James A. Johnson, Kristian Kristiansen, H. Craig Melchert, Matthew Scarborough, Peter Schrijver, Matilde Serangeli, Zsolt Simon, Rasmus Thorsø, Michael Weiss.
The Origins of the World's Mythologies
The Origins of the World's Mythologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origins of the World's Mythologies write by E.J. Michael Witzel. This book was released on 2012-12-13. The Origins of the World's Mythologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, dating back some 100,000 years. Identifying features shared by this "Out of Africa" mythology and its northern Eurasian offshoots, Witzel suggests that these common myths--recounted by the communities of the "African Eve"--are the earliest evidence of ancient spirituality. Moreover these common features, Witzel shows, survive today in all major religions. Witzel's book is an intellectual hand grenade that will doubtless generate considerable excitement--and consternation--in the scholarly community. Indeed, everyone interested in mythology will want to grapple with Witzel's extraordinary hypothesis about the spirituality of our common ancestors, and to understand what it tells us about our modern cultures and the way they are linked at the deepest level.
