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16 - Fire and Water: The Bronze Age of the Southern Urals and the Rigveda

from Part IV - The Bronze Age Chariot and Wool Horizons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2023

By
Andrey Epimakhov  and
Alexander Lubotsky
Edited by
Kristian Kristiansen ,
Guus Kroonen  and
Eske Willerslev
Kristian Kristiansen
Affiliation:
Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
Guus Kroonen
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Eske Willerslev
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
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Summary

It does not often happen that linguistic and archaeological sources allow the creation of a coherent narrative: they are usually separated from each other in time and space and do not meet the necessary prerequisites for a comparative analysis. The archaeological facts must form a clear pattern and demonstrate the existence of a cultural stereotype; the linguistic attribution of the population to which the analyzed archaeological sites belong must be uncontroversial; and, finally, the linguistic sources must provide sufficient information about that cultural stereotype.

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The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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