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Archaeology and Language: The Indo-Iranians
Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C. Anthony, David W. Hamilakis, Yannis Knoblock, Johann Kohl, Phillip L. Makkay, Janos Mallory, J. P. Olsen, Sandra L. Renfrew, Colin Róna-Tas, András
Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C.
Anthony, David W.
Hamilakis, Yannis
Knoblock, Johann
Kohl, Phillip L.
Makkay, Janos
Mallory, J. P.
Olsen, Sandra L.
Renfrew, Colin
Róna-Tas, András
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This review of recent archaeological work in Central Asia and Eurasia attempts to trace and date the movements of the IndoIraniansspeakers of languages of the eastern branch of ProtoIndoEuropean that later split into the Iranian and Vedic families. Russian and Central Asian scholars working on the contemporary but very different Andronovo and Bactrian Margiana archaeological complexes of the 2d millennium b.c. have identified both as IndoIranian, and particular sites so identified are being used for nationalist purposes. There is, however, no compelling archaeological evidence that they had a common ancestor or that either is IndoIranian. Ethnicity and language are not easily linked with an archaeological signature, and the identity of the IndoIranians remains elusive.
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2002-02
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University of Chicago Press
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C. C. Lamberg‐Karlovsky , "Archaeology and Language: The Indo‐Iranians," Current Anthropology 43, no. 1 (February 2002)