This book introduces Proto-Indo-European and explores what the
language reveals about the people who spoke it. The
Proto-Indo-Europeans lived somewhere in Europe or Asia between
5,500 and 8,000 years ago, and no text of their language survives.
J. P. Mallory and Douglas Adams show how over the last two
centuries scholars have reconstructed it from its descendant
languages, the surviving examples of which comprise the world's
largest language family. After a concise account of
Proto-Indo-European grammar and a consideration of its discovery,
they use the reconstructed language and related evidence from
archaeology and natural history to examine the lives, thoughts,
passions, culture, society, economy, history, and environment of
the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Our distant ancestors had used the wheel,
were settled arable farmers, kept sheep and cattle, brewed beer,
got married, made weapons, and had 27 verbs for the expression of
strife. The subjects to which the authors devote chapters include
fauna, flora, family and kinship, clothing and textiles, food and
drink, space and time, emotions, mythology, religion, and the
continuing quest to discover the Proto-Indo-European homeland.
Proto-Indo-European-English and English-Proto-Indo-European
vocabularies and full indexes conclude the book. Written in a
clear, readable style and illustrated with maps, figures, and
tables, this book is on a subject of great and enduring
fascination. It will appeal to students of languages, classics, and
the ancient world, as well as to general readers interested in the
history of language and of early human societies.
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