Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European OriginsCUP Archive, 26 janv. 1990 - 346 pages 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. |
Table des matières
The IndoEuropean Problem in Outline | 9 |
Archaeology and the IndoEuropeans | 20 |
TABLES | 45 |
Homelands in Question | 75 |
Language and Language Change | 99 |
Early Language Dispersals in Europe | 145 |
The Early IndoIranian Languages and their Origins | 177 |
Who were the Celts? | 211 |
IndoEuropean Mythologies | 250 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins Colin Renfrew Affichage d'extraits - 1988 |
Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins Colin Renfrew Affichage d'extraits - 1987 |
Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins Colin Renfrew Aucun aperçu disponible - 1988 |
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