In Search of the Indo-Europeans : Language, Archaeology, and Myth

by: Mallory, J.P.

In search of the Indo-Europeans : language, archaeology and myth

Author:J. P. Mallory

288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm

Contents:
1. The discovery of the Indo-Europeans
August Schleicher
The Indo-European hypothesis
2. The Indo-Europeans in Asia
The Anatolians
The Phrygians
The Armenians
The Indo-Aryans
The Iranians
The Tocharians
3. The Indo-Europeans in Europe
The Greeks
the Thracians
The Illyrians
The Slavs
The Balts
The Germans
Italy
The Celts
Earlier configurations
4. Proto-Indo-European culture
Environment
Economy
Settlement
Technology
Social organization
5. Indo-European religion
Dumézil and tripartition
Horse sacrifice
The cattle cycle
Human sacrifice and punishment
War of the functions
Dualism and Indo-European ideology
Mythology and reality
6. The Indo-European homeland problem
Defining the homeland
The neighbors of the Proto-Indo-Europeans
Internal linguistic evidence
Interference and substrates
Linguistic palaeontology
Archaeology
7. The archaeology of the Proto-Indo-Europeans
Dawn of the Proto-Indo-Europeans
Emergence of Proto-Indo-European society
The Eneolithic period of the western Pontic
The early Eneolithic of the Pontic steppe and forest-steppe
Early Eneolithic in the East
The Yamnaya cultural-historical area
Proto-Indo-European culture
8. Indo-European expansions
Expansion into Asia
Expansion into the Caucasus
Southeastern Europe and western Anatolia
Central and Northern Europe
The process of expansion
Recapitulation
9. Epilogue
The Aryan myth
The legacy

Originally published: 1989

In Search of the Indo-Europeans : Language, Archaeology, and Myth

by: Mallory, J.P.

• ISBN-13: 9780500276167 / 978-0-500-27616-7
• ISBN-03: 0500276161 / 0-500-27616-1
• Thames and Hudson, London, 1999