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Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins
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Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins
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| Notes: Cambridge University Press, Published 1988. Hardcover, xiv, 346 pp.; 24 cm; first North American edition ("First published in North America by Cambridge University Press 1988"; first published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape 1987); 14 black-and-white plates, with maps, figures and tables in the text; map endpapers. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine; mild shelf and edge wear to covers, some bumping to corners. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-i Rustam on front, Old Persian inscription from Persepolis on rear); a few small nicks and light creasing along edges, mild shelf and edge wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Renfrew's study of where the Indo-European languages came from, combining historical linguistics with processual archaeology. Against the long-held view that Kurgan horsemen from the Russian steppes carried the languages into Europe in the Bronze Age, he argues that early forms of Indo-European spread from Anatolia with the first farmers, around 7000-6500 BC, and that there was no "coming of the Celts." The book set out what became known as the Anatolian hypothesis, still debated today. Renfrew (1937-2024) was Disney Professor of Archaeology and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge. Illustrated with plates of the Hittite King's Gate at Boghazkoy, Tocharian documents collected by Aurel Stein, Catal Huyuk, Mohenjodaro sealstones and the Birdlip mirror, together with maps and language family trees. Contents: Acknowledgments; Preface: What Song the Sirens Sang; The Indo-European Problem in Outline; Archaeology and the Indo-Europeans; Lost Languages and Forgotten Scripts: The Indo-European Languages, Old and New; Homelands in Question; Language and Language Change; Language, Population and Social Organization: A Processual Approach; Early Language Dispersals in Europe; The Early Indo-Iranian Languages and their Origins; Ethnogenesis: Who were the Celts?; Indo-European Mythologies; Archaeology and Indo-European Origins: An Assessment; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |||||||||||||||
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