Linguists and archaeologists have argued for decades about where and when the first Indo-European languages were spoken and what kind of lives those first speakers led ...

Relative linguistic models have served as pushpins in mapping European migration, though language speakers' physical origins versus cultural adaptation have remained uncertain.

What theory we want and what theory we get ; Linguistic fallacies of the Bayesian phylogenetic model ; Dating problems of the Bayesian phylogenetic model ; The historical-geographical failure of the ...

Long before the gods of Olympus or Rome, ancient Indo-European speakers likely worshiped a sky father known as Dyeus Pater. This reconstructed deity left linguistic traces across Sanskrit, Greek ...

A new look at our linguistic roots A controversial analytic technique offers new answers for Indo-European languages.

Researchers are still studying the ancient text of an unknown language, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet.

From a purely linguistic point of view, then, Proto-Indo-Anatolian is for these researchers the equivalent of what the rest of us are used to speaking of as Proto-Indo-European.

To solve these problems, researchers from the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology assembled an international team of over 80 ...

The long tried methods of Indo-European linguistics have proved themselves by the success with which they have been applied to other fields, for instance Central Algonkian and Athabaskan. An ...

For over two hundred years, the origin of the Indo-European languages has been disputed. Two main theories have recently dominated this debate: the "Steppe" hypothesis, which proposes an origin in ...