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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793719303321

Titolo

Tracing the Indo-Europeans : new evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics / / edited by Birgit Anette Olsen, Thomas Olander, Kristian Kristiansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Philadelphia : , : Oxbow Books, , 2019

ISBN

1-78925-271-7

1-78925-273-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages)

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Indo-Europeans - History

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Tracing the Indo-Europeans : introduction / Birgit A. Olsen, Thomas Olander and Kristian Kristiansen -- The Indo-European homeland : introducing the problem / Thomas Olander -- Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Nostratic : a brief excursus into the comparative study of proto-languages / James P. Mallory -- A linking cord : pottery ornamentation and language in the North c. 3600-2400 BC / Einar �stmo -- On the emergence of the Corded Ware societies in Northern Europe : reconsidering the migration hypothesis / Rune Iversen -- Late Bronze Age midwinter dog sacrifices and warrior initiations at Krasnosamarskoe, Russia / Dorcas R. Brown and David W. Anthony -- 'Children of the light' : on yoga, body schemes and altered states of consciousness in the Nordic Late Bronze Age - a link to India? / Kristin Armstrong Oma and Lene Melheim -- Aspects of family structure among the Indo-Europeans / Birgit A. Olsen -- To bury a ruler : the meaning of the horse in aristocratic burials / Anne-Marie Carstens.