Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European OriginsIn 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. |
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Gebruikersrecensie - wickenden - LibraryThingRenfrew believes that the Indo-European languages spread from Anatolia into Europe (into Greece and beyond). He says it spread with the expansion of farming. Interesting. Volledige review lezen
Inhoudsopgave
The IndoEuropean Problem in Outline | 9 |
Archaeology and the IndoEuropeans | 20 |
TABLES | 45 |
The Celtic languages | 68 |
Homelands in Question | 75 |
Language and Language Change | 99 |
Early Language Dispersals in Europe | 145 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins Colin Renfrew Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1988 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
accepted advance already Anatolia animals approach archaeological argued arguments bronze called Celtic Celts central central Europe century certainly Chapter Childe civilization classical clear common consider course culture discussion dominance doubt earlier early east eastern economy emergence Europe European evidence existence farmers farming further Germanic Greece Greek groups historical Hittite homeland horse important India indications Indo-European languages instance interesting Italy Knossos known lands later Latin least linguistic material meaning migrations millennium names neolithic nomad noted offered organization origins perhaps period Persian population possible pottery present problem Proto-Indo-European question reason recent refer region result Romans scholars script seems seen sense significant similar simply social societies sometimes speaking specific spoken spread steppe suggest various wave western whole writing written