Search for the Indo-Europeans
@article{Balter2004SearchFT, title={Search for the Indo-Europeans}, author={Michael Balter}, journal={Science}, year={2004}, volume={303}, pages={1323 - 1323} }
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Non-Iranian Origin of the Eastern-Slavonic God Xŭrsŭ/Xors Neiranskoe proishoždenie vostočnoslavjanskogo boga Hrsa/Horsa
- Linguistics
- 2014
The paper examines the traditional explanation of the Eastern-Slavonic deity Xors as an Iranian loan from the Persian xwarsēδ/xorsid ‘sun’ and advances an alternative etymology via the Indo-Aryan…
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- Sociology
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- Biology
- 2019
The insights used to assess the recent glut of attempts to employ methods from biological informatics in establishing new phylogenies of Indo-European languages are analyzed.
Population history in third-millennium-BC Europe: assessing the contribution of genetics
- Geography
- 2016
ABSTRACT Several recent high-profile aDNA studies have claimed to have identified major migrations during the third millennium BC in Europe. This contribution offers a brief review of these studies,…
Phytochemical and genetic analyses of ancient cannabis from Central Asia
- BiologyJournal of experimental botany
- 2008
These investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent, and contribute to the medical and archaeological record of this pre-Silk Road culture.
The Beginnings of Patriarchy in Europe: Reflections on the Kurgan Theory of Marija Gimbutas
- History
- 2006
An investigation of the beginnings of patriarchy in Europe is more than an intellectual exercise. Its path crosses the boundaries of archaeology, anthropology, gender studies, history, linguistics,…
Akhenaten, S"urya, and the R. gveda
- History
- 2003
A sad consequence of the colonialist historiography of the 19th century Indologists is the comparative neglect of India’s interaction with Africa. Cyril Hromnik’s Indo-Africa 1 (1981) is the only…
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- BiologyAnnals of human biology
- 2021
The data suggest that the Steppe-related ancestry arriving into Central Europe was male-driven, dominantly in the Corded Ware culture populations and lesser in the Bell Beaker populations, and there is no evidence that this migration had a significant input on the mitochondrial genetic pool of all European Bronze Age populations.
Mitochondrial variability in the Mediterranean area: a complex stage for human migrations
- Environmental ScienceAnnals of human biology
- 2018
It is necessary to collect whole genome data on both extinct and extant populations from this area to fully reconstruct and interpret the impact of multiple migratory waves and their cultural and genetic consequences on the structure of the Mediterranean populations.
Reflections on the Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Greater Himalayan Region
- Geography
- 2008
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