Indo-Aryans in the Bronze Age

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

The Problem of the Indo-Aryan Homeland

Methodological problems of homeland reconstruction

Steppe hypothesis

Chapter 1. Linguistic foundations of the Indo-Aryan problem

Indo-Aryan languages

Indo-Aryan homeland

Aryans in South Asia and autochthonous tribes

Indo-Aryan linguistic relations in Northern Eurasia

Mitannian Aryan

Summarizing linguistic data on the Indo-Aryan homeland

Chapter 2. Palaeogenetics and the Indo-Aryan problem

Palaeogenetics of the Near East

Palaeogenetics of Northern Eurasia

Palaeogenetics of the Karasuk culture and the Early Iron Age in steppe Eurasia

Palaeogenetics of South Asia

Chapter 3. Archaeology and the Indo-Aryan problem

Archaeology of South Asia

Catacomb cultures of Eastern Iran and southern Central Asia

Catacombs in Northern Eurasia

Indo-Aryans in the Levant

Mitanni and chariots in the Near East

Post-Catacomb period in Eastern Europe

Formation and development of LBA cultures in Northern Eurasia

Northern Eurasia in the Late Bronze Age

Northern Eurasia in the Final Bronze Age

Chapter 4. Conclusion

Some methodological reflections on the Indo-European problem

General scheme of Indo-Aryan migrations in the 3rd–2nd millennia BC

Bibliography 

About the Author

Stanislav Grigoriev graduated from Chelyabinsk University, where he has worked as an archaeologist since 1985; he has also worked at the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1989. He specialises in ancient metallurgy, the Bronze Age of the Urals and Kazakhstan, the Indo-European problem and the megaliths of the Urals. Over these years, Grigoriev has published nine books, 14 chapters, 126 articles, and 78 works in conference proceedings.