Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins

advance model Anatolia Anatolian languages archaeological argued arguments Asia Bantu Beaker Brithonic bronze age Celtic languages Celts central century BC certainly civilization classical common Corded Ware course cuneiform script decipherment dialects dispersal displacement Dumézil earlier early farming early Indo-European language early languages east eastern élite dominance ethnic European languages evidence farmers farming economy Germanic Gimbutas glottochronology Greece Greek historical linguistics Hittite homeland horse hymns hypothesis India indications Indo Indo-European languages Indo-European studies Indo-Iranian languages Indus Valley Indus Valley civilization inscriptions Iranian iron age Kurgan language group later Latin material culture mesolithic migrations millennium BC Mitanni modern Mycenaean neolithic nomad pastoralism origins pastoralists population pottery prehistoric Proto-Indo-European question recent Rigveda Romans Sanskrit sapiens scholars script seen significant social societies speaking specific spoken spread of farming steppe suggest tablets Tène Tocharian Vedic Vedic Sanskrit vocabulary wave of advance western words