Did Indo-European Languages Spread Before Farming? - http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/Indo2.html
Journal article by Jonathan Adams and Marcel Otte scheduled to be published in "Current Anthropology" that challenges the dominant theory placing Indo-European dispersal in the Bronze Age. |
Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IED) - http://www.indoeuropean.nl/
Ambitious project based at the Leiden University (The Netherlands). It contains etymological data for some individual Indo-European (IE) languages, as well as for some branches of the family. |
Indo-European: Possible Homeland & Migrations Slideshow - http://www.hjholm.de
Introductory page on the homeland problem, and slideshow of homeland and possible migrations after mainstream opinion. |
Kurgan Culture - http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Kurgans.htm
Detailed description of the archaeological findings associated with the "Kurgan culture", a 5th-3th millennium BC civilization north of the Black Sea, whose inhabitants are widely thought to have been the speakers of Proto-Indo-European (PIE). Includes a partial reconstructed PIE word list. |
Linguistics: Historical Linguistics - http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/hippo.html
A light-hearted discussion of Indo-European and other linguistics topics, from the staff in the Linguistics Program at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA). |
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~marisal/ie/pie.html
A good, if rather brief, overview of the Proto-Indo-European language, with outlines of some of its daughter branches. The author is Marisa Lohr, a Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge (England). |
Proto-Indo-European Language Demonstration and Exploration Website - http://colfa.utsa.edu/drinka/pie/
Basic overview of the Indo-European language family, with particular attention to its major members. From the College of Liberal and Fine Arts (COLFA) at the University of Texas at San Antonio. |
The Ergativic Stage of Early Proto-Indoeuropean - http://www.dabis.at/Anwender.htm/Alscher/contents.htm
Web version of a doctoral thesis by Hans-Joachim Alscher concerning the origin of the Indo-European nominal declension and gender systems. Includes a discussion of the possible relationship between the Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic language families. |
The Spread of the Indo-Europeans - http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art111e.pdf
Scholarly article by Frederik Kortlandt on the dating of the spreading of the Indo-Europeans based on information obtained from both linguistic and archaeological research. |