Archaeology and Language The Puzzle of Indo European Origins

Colin Renfrew

Where did the family of languages linking Europe, Iran and India come from, and who first spoke them?

At a glance

You will question the old habit of assuming that every change in pottery or language marks a migrating people
You will weigh the proposal that the first farmers carried Indo European speech out of Anatolia along with wheat and barley
You will be able to ask what social reality a proposed language change implies, and how archaeology would show it