Tracing the Indo-Europeans

Birgit Olsen is Professor in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. Thomas Olander is an associate professor of Indo-European Studies, University of Copenhagen. Kristian Kristiansen is a pre-eminent archaeologist. He is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and a prolific author. His main research interests are in the European Bronze Age, archaeological theory and archaeological heritage.

• List of figuresList of tablesContributors1. Tracing the Indo-Europeans: IntroductionBirgit A. Olsen, Thomas Olander and Kristian Kristiansen 2. The Indo-European homeland: Introducing the problemThomas Olander 3. Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Nostratic: A brief excursus into the comparative study of proto-languagesJames P. Mallory 4. A linking cord: Pottery ornamentation and language in the North c. 3600–2400 BCEinar Østmo 5. On the emergence of the Corded Ware societies in Northern Europe: Reconsidering the migration hypothesisRune Iversen 6. Late Bronze Age midwinter dog sacrifices and warrior initiations at Krasnosamarskoe, RussiaDorcas R. Brown and David W. Anthony7. ‘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 Melheim8. Aspects of family structure among the Indo-EuropeansBirgit A. Olsen9. To bury a ruler: The meaning of the horse in aristocratic burialsAnne-Marie Carstens

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