Carpelan Ch., Parpola A., Koskikallio P. (eds.). Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations

Papers presented at an international symposium held at the Tvärminne research station of the University of Helsinki, 8-10 January, 1999. — Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 2001. — 456 p. — (Suomalais-ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia = Mémoires de la Société finno-ougrienne, 242). — ISBN: 9525150593.Foreword. David W. Anthony, Persistent identity and Indo-European archaeology in the western steppes. Christian Carpelan, Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic settlement of the European north – possible linguistic implications. Christian Carpelan and Asko Parpola, Emergence, contacts and dispersal of Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan in archaeological perspective. H.-P. Francfort, The archaeology of protohistoric Central Asia and the problems of identifying Indo-European and Uralic-speaking populations. Kaisa Häkkinen, Prehistoric Finno-Ugric culture in the light of historical lexicology. Eugene Helimski, Early Indo-Uralic linguistic relationship: Real kinship and imagined contacts. Juha Janhunen, Indo-Uralic and Ural-Altaic: On the diachronic implications of areal typology. Petri Kallio, Phonetic Uralisms in Indo-European? . Jorma Koivulehto, The earliest contacts between Indo-European and Uralic speakers in the light of lexical loans. L. L. Kosinskaya, The Neolithic period of north-western Siberia, The question of southern connections. E. E. Kuz’mina, Contacts between Finno-Ugric and Indo-Iranian speakers in the light of archaeological, linguistic and mythological data. Alexander Lubotsky, The Indo-Iranian substratum. J. Makkay, The earliest Proto-Indo-European-Proto-Uralic contacts: An Upper Palaeolithic model. J. P. Mallory, Uralics and Indo-Europeans, Problems of time and space. Vladimir Napol’skikh, Tocharisch-uralische Berührungen: Sprache und Archäologie. Tapani Salminen, The rise of the Finno-Ugric language family. Pekka Sammallahti, The Indo-European loanwords in Saami. Peter Schrijver, Lost languages in northern Europe. Abstracts: E. N. Chernykh and S. V. Kuz’minykh, Ancient metallurgy in northern Eurasia: On the problem of contacts between the Indo-European- and Uralic-speaking peoples. Asya Engovatova, Chronology of the Volga-Oka valley Neolithic and the Lyalovo migrations. V. I. Timofeev, Migrations, diffusion and uninterrupted development in the Stone Age of the forest zone of eastern Europe: Some remarks. Konstantin V. Voronin, The problem of interaction of cultural traditions in the Bronze Age in central Russia (Volga-Oka basin) . Contributors. Index.