E-raamat: Indo-Aryans in the Bronze Age

List of Figures and Tables


 


Introduction


The Problem of the Indo-Aryan Homeland


Methodological problems of homeland reconstruction


Steppe hypothesis


 


Chapter
1. Linguistic foundations of the Indo-Aryan problem


Indo-Aryan languages


Indo-Aryan homeland


Aryans in South Asia and autochthonous tribes


Indo-Aryan linguistic relations in Northern Eurasia


Mitannian Aryan


Summarizing linguistic data on the Indo-Aryan homeland


 


Chapter
2. Palaeogenetics and the Indo-Aryan problem


Palaeogenetics of the Near East


Palaeogenetics of Northern Eurasia


Palaeogenetics of the Karasuk culture and the Early Iron Age in steppe
Eurasia


Palaeogenetics of South Asia







Chapter
3. Archaeology and the Indo-Aryan problem


Archaeology of South Asia


Catacomb cultures of Eastern Iran and southern Central Asia


Catacombs in Northern Eurasia


Indo-Aryans in the Levant


Mitanni and chariots in the Near East


Post-Catacomb period in Eastern Europe


Formation and development of LBA cultures in Northern Eurasia


Northern Eurasia in the Late Bronze Age


Northern Eurasia in the Final Bronze Age







Chapter
4. Conclusion


Some methodological reflections on the Indo-European problem


General scheme of Indo-Aryan migrations in the 3rd2nd millennia BC


 


Bibliography 

Stanislav Grigoriev graduated from Chelyabinsk University, where he has worked as an archaeologist since 1985; he has also worked at the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1989. He specialises in ancient metallurgy, the Bronze Age of the Urals and Kazakhstan, the Indo-European problem and the megaliths of the Urals. Over these years, Grigoriev has published nine books, 14 chapters, 126 articles, and 78 works in conference proceedings.