New book about Indo Europeans

The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the
Proto-Indo-European World
J. P. Mallory and D. Q. Adams
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ISBN13: 9780199287918
ISBN10: 0199287910
hardback, 448 pages
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Description
This book introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it was
reconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows what it reveals
about the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago. Using
related evidence from archaeology and natural history the authors
explore the lives, thoughts, passions, culture, society, economy,
history, and environment of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. They include
chapters on fauna, flora, family and kinship, clothing and textiles,
food and drink, space and time, emotions, mythology, and religion, and
describe the quest to discover the Proto-Indo-European homeland.
Product Details
448 pages;
ISBN13: 978-0-19-928791-8
ISBN10: 0-19-928791-0
About the Author(s)

J. P. Mallory is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Queen's
University of Belfast. He holds a PhD in Indo-European Studies (1975)
from the University of California. His books include In Search of the
Indo-Europeans (1989) and, with Victor Mair, The Tarim Mummies: The
Mystery of the First Westerners in Ancient China (2000). He is
currently the editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies and was
elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 1996.

D. Q. Adams is Professor of English at the University of Idaho. He
holds a PhD in Linguistics (1972) from the University of Chicago
(1972). His published work includes An Introduction to Tocharian
Historical Morphology (1988), A Dictionary of Tocharian B (1999), and
numerous articles on Indo-European and especially Tocharian topics.
J. P. Mallory and D. Q. Adams are the co-editors of the Encyclopedia
of Indo-European Culture (1997).