Retracing every last twist in the path from there to here, no doubt, would make for a gripping book. However, that is not the book J. P. Mallory wrote. His sole concern in The Indo-Europeans ...

List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Indo-European debate and why it matters -- Part I. The vexatious history of Indo-European studies. Ideology ...

Europe is today mapped in familiar languages—English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German. Yet long before the spread of these Indo-European languages, a patchwork of earlier peoples spoke tongues ...

Among the great intellectual developments of the nineteenth century was the advent of the comparative method in the nascent field of linguistics. Among the great intellectual developments of the early ...

Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognized that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first spoke this ancient ...