Proto-Indo-Europeans
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The Proto-Indo-Europeans are the speakers of the newer version of the Proto-Indo-European language, a prehistoric people of the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age or some say to some modern theories at Neolithic or even Paleolithic.
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[change] Summary
The Proto-Indo-Europeans are a hypothetical as a group of people whose existence from around 4000 BCE is inferred from their language, Proto-Indo-European.
[change] See also
- Proto-Indo-European language
- Comparative linguistics
- List of Indo-European roots
- Urheimat
- Armenian hypothesis
- Archaeogenetics
- Kurgan
- Aryan
- Aryan invasion
- Paleolithic Continuity Theory
[change] Other websites
- Indo-European Roots Index, from The American Heritage® Dictionary
- Kurgan culture
- Indo-European Origins in Southeast Europe
[change] Further reading
- Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca (2000), Genes, Peoples, and Languages, New York: North Point Press.
- Gray, Russell D. & Quentin D. Atkinson (2003), "Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin", Nature 426: 435-439, DOI:10.1038/nature02029.
- Mallory, J.P. (1989), In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth, London: Thames & Hudson.
- Piazza, Alberto & Luigi Cavalli Sforza (2006), "Diffusion of Genes and Languages in Human Evolution", in Cangelosi, Angelo; Andrew D M Smith & Kenny Smith, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG6), Rome: World Scientific, 12 – 15 April 2006, at pages 255--266. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- C. Renfrew, Archaeology and language, the puzzle of Indo-European origins (London, Penguin 1987).
- Brian Sykes, The seven daughters of Eve (London, Corgi Books 2001)
- Atkinson, Q. D., Nicholls, G., Welch, D. and Gray, R. D. (2005). From Words to Dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or phylogenetic inference? Transactions of the Philological Society, 103(2), 193-219.
- Watkins, Calvert. (1995) How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Wells, Spencer (2002), The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, Princeton University Press.
