Proto Indo European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem : Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas [Paperback]

Wolfgang P. Schmidt (Author), Colin Renfrew (Author), Edgar C. Polomé (Author), A. Richard Diebold (Author), Wilfred P. Lehman (Author), Eric P. Hamp (Author), János Makkay (Author), Ralph M. Rowlett (Author), Susan Nacev Skomal (Editor), Edgar C. Polome (Editor)

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• Paperback: 396 pages
• Publisher: Inst for the Study of Man (July 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941694291
• ISBN-13: 978-0941694292
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Thorough investigations on the Proto-Indo-European, June 16, 1998

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This review is from: Proto Indo European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem : Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas (Paperback)

Many distinguished linguistic archeologists made the thorough investigations on the history of Proto-Indo-European(PIE) language. However, I had a slight disappointment on this book, because I had expected a wide range of reconstructed PIE words in this book. This book does not have such a word list. However, it has very precious archeological data for the PIE language. This book also has some commemorial pictures of Marija Gimbutas.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Contents of Book, February 20, 2005

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This review is from: Proto Indo European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem : Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas (Paperback)

A. Richard Diebold, Jr.: Linguistic Ways to Prehistory; Winfred P. Lehmann: Linguistic and Archaeological Data for Handbooks of Proto-Languages; János Nemeskéri and László Szathmáry: An Anthropological Evaluation of the IE Problem; Nikolai Ja. Merpert: Ethnocultural Change in the Balkans in the Eneolithic; Sándor Bökönyi: Horses and Sheep in the Copper and Bronze Ages; Homer L. Thomas: The Indo-Europeans-Some Historical and Theoretical Considerations; János Makkay: The Linear Pottery and the Early Indo-Europeans; Eric P. Hamp: The Pig in Ancient Northern Europe; Ralph M. Rowlett: Grave Wealth in the Horodenka Group; Christopher Hawkes: Archaeologists and Indo-Europeanists-Can They Mate?; Edgar C. Polomé: Who are the Germanic People?; Gregory Nagy: The IE Heritage of Tribal Organization-Evidence from the Greek polis; Bruce Lincoln: On the Scythian Royal Burials; Calvert Watkins: Linguistic and Archaeological Light on Some Homeric Formulas; T.L. Markey: Morning, Evening, and the Twilight Between; Wolfgang P. Schmidt: `Indo-European'-'Old European'; Colin Renfrew: Old Europe or Ancient Near East? Clay Cylinders of Sitagroi; Edgar C. Polomé: Marija Gimbutas, A Biographical Sketch.