The Indo-European Homeland from Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives

Annual Review of Linguistics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 199-219

  Anthony, David W ^a   Ringe, Don ^b  

^a HARTWICK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

archaeology; comparative Indo European linguistics; computational cladistics; Indo European homeland; steppe hypothesis; wheel vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925251205     PISSN: 23339683     EISSN: 23339691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-124812     Document Type: Review

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