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Lesson 9.17: Linguistic Concerns: The First Aegean Indo-Europeans, the Archaeology of Horses and Wheeled Vehicles, and the Arrival of the Greeks

Lesson 9 Bibliography: Middle Helladic Greece

[see also “Indo-Europeans in Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Hypothesis” in Bibliography for Lesson 7]

J. Adams and M. Otte, “Did Indo-European Languages Spread before Farming?,” Current Anthropology 40(1999) 73-77.

F. R. Adrados, “The New Image of Indo-European, the History of a Revolution,” Indogermanische Forschungen 97(1992) 5-28.

M. E. Allentoft et al., “Population Genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia,” Nature 522(11 June, 2015) 167-172 [doi:10.1038/nature14507]

D. W. Anthony, “The 'Kurgan Culture', Indo-European Origins, and the Domestication of the Horse: A Reconsideration,” Current Anthropology 27(1986) 291-304.

D. W. Anthony, “The Archaeology of Indo-European Origins,” JIES 19(1991) 193-222.

D. W. Anthony, “Horse, Wagon and Chariot: Indo-European Languages and Archaeology,” Antiquity 69(1995) 554-565.

D. W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Princeton 2007).

D. W. Anthony, “Two IE Phylogenies, Three PIE Migrations, and Four Kinds of Steppe Pastoralism,” Journal of Language Relationship 9(2013) 1-22.

D. W. Anthony and D. R. Brown, “The Secondary Products Revolution, Horse-riding, and Mounted Warfare,” JWP 24(2011) 131-160.

D. W. Anthony and D. Ringe, “The Indo-European Homeland from Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives,” Annual Review of Linguistics (2015) 199-219.

T. G. Antikas, “The Honor to Be Buried with Horses from Mycenaean Nemea to Macedonian Vergina,” in A. Gardeisen (ed.), Les équides dans le monde méditerranéen antique (Lattes 2005) 143-151.

Q. D. Atkinson and R. D. Gray, “How Old Is the Indo-European Language Family? Illumination or More Moths to the Flame?,” in P. Forster and C. Renfrew (eds.), Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages (Cambridge 2006) 91-109.

J. A. Bakker, J. Kruk, A. L. Lanting, and S. Milisauskas, “The Earliest Evidence of Wheeled Vehicles in Europe and the Near East,” Antiquity 73(1999) 778-790.

N. Benecke, “On the Beginning of Horse Husbandry in the Southern Balkan Peninsula: The Horses from Kirklareli-Kanligeçit (Turkish Thrace),” TÜBA-AR 12(2009) 13-24.

J. G. P. Best and Y. Yadin, The Arrival of the Greeks (Amsterdam 1973).

C. W. Blegen, “The Coming of the Greeks II: The Geographical Distribution of Prehistoric Remains in Greece,” AJA 32(1928) 146-154.

R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds.), Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (London/New York 1997).

J. Boessneck and A. von den Driesch, “Die zoologische Dokumentation der Reste von vier Pferden und einem Hund aus einem mykenischen Schachtgrab in Kokla bei Argos (Peloponnes),” Spixiana 7:3 (1984) 327-333. 

I. Bradfer-Burdet, “Harnachement et parure des chevaux: esquisse d’un protocole official à l’époque mycénienne,” in A. Gardeisen (ed.), Les équides dans le monde méditerranéen antique (Lattes 2005) 77-93.

C. Carpelan and A. Parpola, “Emergence, Contacts and Dispersal of Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan in Archaeological Perspective,” in C. Carpelan, A. Parpola, and P. Koskikallio (eds.), Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations (Helsinki 2001) 55-150.

O. Carruba, “L'arrivo dei Greci, le migrazioni indoeuropee e il 'Ritorno degli Eraclidi',” Athenaeum 83(1995) 5-44.

J. Clutton-Brock, Horse Power (Cambridge 1992).

J. E. Coleman, “An Archaeological Scenario for the 'Coming of the Greeks' ca. 3200 B.C.,” JIES 28(2000) 101-153.

M. B. Cosmopoulos, “From Artifacts to Peoples: Pelasgoi, Indo-Europeans and the Arrival of the Greeks,” in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds.), Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, Languages and Texts (London/New York 1999) 249-256.

J. V. Day, Indo-European Origins: The Anthropological Evidence (Washington D.C. 2001).

A. Dolgopolsky, “The Indo-European Homeland and Lexical Contacts of Proto-Indo-European with Other Languages,” Mediterranean Language Review 3(1988) 7-31.

A. Dolgopolsky, “More about the Indo-European Homeland Problem,” Mediterranean Language Review 6-7(1993) 230-246.

R. Drews, The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East (Princeton 1988).

R. Drews, “PIE Speakers and PA Speakers,” JIES 25(1997) 153-177.

R. Drews (ed.), Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family [JIES Monograph 38] (Washington D.C. 2001).

R. Drews, “Proto-Anatolian, Proto-Indo-Hittite, and Beyond,” in R. Drews (ed.), Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family [JIES Monograph 38] (Washington D.C. 2001) 248-283. 

R. Drews, Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe (London/New York 2017).

C. Ehret, “Language Change and the Material Correlates of Language and Ethnic Shift,” Antiquity 62(1988) 564-574.

M. Fansa and S. Burmeister (eds.), Rad und Wagen. Der Ursprung einer Innovation: Wagen im vorderen Orient und Europa (Mainz 2004).

A. Fick, Vorgriechische Ortsnamen (Göttingen 1905).

M. Finkelberg, “Royal Succession in Heroic Greece,” CQ 41(1991) 303-316.

M. Finkelberg, “Anatolian Languages and Indo-European Migrations to Greece,” Classical World 91(1997) 3-20.

D. H. French, “Migrations and ‘Minyan’ Pottery in Western Anatolia and the Aegean,” in R. A. Crossland and A. Birchall (eds.), Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean (Park Ridge 1974) 51-57.

T. V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov, Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans (Mouton 1995).

A. Gardeisen (ed.), Les équides dans le monde méditerranéen antique (Lattes 2005).

V. I. Georgiev, “The Arrival of the Greeks in Greece: The Linguistic Evidence,” in R. A. Crossland and A. Birchall (eds.), Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean (Park Ridge 1974) 243-253.

M. A. Gimbutas, The Kurgan Culture and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe: Selected Articles from 1952-1993 (Washington D.C. 1997).

R. D. Gray amd Q. D. Atkinson, “Language-tree Divergence Times Support the Anatolian Theory of Indo-European Origin,” Nature 426(2003) 435-439.

W. Haak et al., “Massive Migration from the Steppe was a Source for Indo-European Languages in Europe,” Nature 522 (11 June, 2015) 207-211 [doi:10.1038/nature14317].

J. B. Hainsworth, “Some Observations on the Indo-European Placenames of Greece,” in Acta of the 2nd International Colloquium on Aegean Prehistory (Athens 1972) 39-42.

J. B. Haley, “The Coming of the Greeks I: The Geographical Distribution of Pre-Greek Place Names,” AJA 32(1928) 141-145.

N. G. L. Hammond, Migrations and Invasions in Greece and Adjacent Areas (Park Ridge 1976).

E. P. Hamp, “The Indo-European Horse,” in T. L. Markey and J. A. C. Greppin (eds.), When Worlds Collide: The Indo-Europeans and the Pre-Indo-Europeans (Ann Arbor 1990) 211-226.

A. Häusler, “Die Indoeuropäisierung Griechenlands nach Aussage der Grab- und Bestattungssitten,” Slovenska Archeologia 24:1(1981) 59-66.

D. A. Hester, “Pre-Greek Place Names in Greece and Asia Minor,” Revue hittite et asianique 15(1957) 107-119.

D. A. Hester, “’Pelasgian’: A New Indo-European Language?,” Lingua 13(1965) 335-384.

A. Heubeck, Praegraeca. Sprachliche Untersuchungen zum vorgriechish-indogermanischen Substrat (Erlangen 1961).

E. J. Holmberg, “The Immigration of Indo-Europeans into Greece during the Early Bronze Age,” OpAth 12(1978) 1-9.

J. T. Hooker, Mycenaean Greece (Boston 1976) 11-33.

J. T. Hooker, “The Coming of the Greeks,” Historia 15(1976) 129-145. 

J. T. Hooker, The Coming of the Greeks (Claremont 1999).

E. Kosmetatou, “Horse Sacrifices in Greece and Cyprus,” JPR 7(1993) 31-41.

P. Kretschmer, Einleitung in die Geschichte der griechischen Sprache (Göttingen 1896).

P. Kretschmer, “Die vorgriechischen Sprach- und Volksschichten,” Glotta 28(1940) 231-279; 30(1943) 84-218.

K. Kristiansen, “What Language Did Neolithic Pots Speak? Colin Renfrew’s European Farming-Language-Dispersal Model Challenged,” Antiquity 79(2005) 679-691.

J. P. Mallory, In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth (London 1989).

J. P. Mallory, “The Homelands of the Indo-Europeans,” in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds.), Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (London/New York 1997) 93-121.

J. P. Mallory and D. Q. Adams, The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford 2006).

T. L. Markey and J. A. C. Greppin (eds.), When Worlds Collide: The Indo-Europeans and the Pre-Indo-Europeans (Ann Arbor 1990).

A. Martinet, “The Indo-Europeans and Greece,” Diogenes 145(1989) 1-16.

R. H. Meadow and H. P. Uerpmann (eds.), Equids in the Ancient World I-II (Wiesbaden 1986, 1991).

M. Meier-Brügger, “Griechen in Griechenland: Einwanderung oder Autochthonie? Gibt es Anhaltspunkte für eine Entscheidung aus dem altgriechiscen Wortschatz?,” in F. Lang, C. Reinholdt, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), STEPHANOS ARISTEIOS. Archäologische Forschungen zwischen Nil und Istros: Festschrift für Stefan Hiller zum 65. Geburtstag (Vienna 2007) 187-190.

N. J. Merpert, “Ethnocultural Change in the Balkans on the Border between the Eneolithic and the Early Bronze Age,” in S. N. Skomal and E. C. Polomé (eds.), Proto-Indo-European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem (Washington D.C. 1987) 122-135.

A. Morpurgo Davies, “The Linguistic Evidence: Is There Any?,” in G. Cadogan (ed.), The End of the Early Bronze Age in the Aegean (Leiden 1986) 125-137.

J. D. Muhly, “On the Shaft Graves at Mycenae,” in M. A. Powell, Jr. and R. H. Sack (eds.), Studies in Honor of Tom B. Jones (Neukirchen-Vluyn 1979) 311-323.

J. Nichols, “The Epicentre of the Indo-European Linguistic Spread,” in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds.), Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (London/New York 1997) 122-148.

J. Nichols, “The Eurasian Spread Zone and the Indo-European Dispersal,” in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds.), Archaeology and Language II: Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses (London/New York 1998) 220-266.

L. R. Palmer, The Greek Language (London 1980).

G. Rachet, “L'arrivée des Indo-Européens en Grèce et en Asie Antérieure,” Arheologia Moldovei 11(1987) 51-64.

D. S. Reese, “Equid Sacrifices/Burials in Greece and Cyprus: An Addendum,” JPR 9(1995) 35-42.

C. Renfrew, “Problems in the General Correlation of Archaeological and Linguistic Strata in Prehistoric Greece: The Model of Autochthonous Origin,” in R. A. Crossland and A. Birchall (eds.), Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean (Park Ridge 1974) 263-276.

C. Renfrew, Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (London 1987).

C. Renfrew, “’Ever in Process of Becoming’: The Autochthony of the Greeks,” in J. A. Koumoulides (ed.), The Good Idea: Democracy in Ancient Greece (New Rochelle 1995) 7-28.

C. Renfrew, “World Linguistic Diversity and Farming Dispersals,” in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds.), Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (London/New York 1997) 82-90.

C. Renfrew, “Word of Minos: The Minoan Contribution to Mycenaean Greek and the Linguistic Geography of the Bronze Age Aegean,” CAJ 8:2(1998) 239-264.

C. Renfrew, “All the King's Horses: Assessing Cognitive Maps in Later Prehistoric Europe,” in S. Mithen (ed.), Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory (London/New York 1998) 260-284.

C. Renfrew, “Time Depth, Convergence Theory, and Innovation in Proto-Indo-European: 'Old Europe' as a PIE Linguistic Area,” JIES 27(1999) 257-293.

C. Renfrew, “The Anatolian Origin of Proto-Indo-European and the Autochthony of the Hittites,” in R. Drews (ed.), Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family [JIES Monograph 38] (Washington D.C. 2001) 36-63.

C. Renfrew, “The Indo-European Problem and the Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppes: Questions of Time Depth,” in K. Jones-Bley and D. G. Zdanovich (eds.), Complex Societies of Central Eurasia from the 3rd to the 1st Millennium BC I: Ethnos, Language, Culture (Washington D.C. 2002) 3-20.

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R. A. van Royen and B. H. Isaac, The Arrival of the Greeks.The Evidence of the Settlements (Amsterdam 1979).

M. Sakellariou, Les Proto-Grecs (Athens 1981).

A. Sherratt, “Echoes of the Big Bang: The Historical Context of Language Dispersal,” in K. Jones-Bley et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles 1998 (Washington D.C. 1999) 261-282.

A. and S. Sherratt, “The Archaeology of Indo-European: An Alternative View,” Antiquity 62(1988) 584-595.

M. R. Stefanovich, “Can Archaeology and Historical Linguistics Coexist? A Critical Review of Colin Renfrew’s Archaeology and Language – The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins,” Mankind Quarterly 30(1989) 129-158.

G. D. Summers, “Questions Raised by the Identification of Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Horse Bones in Anatolia,” in R. Drews (ed.), Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family [JIES Monograph 38] (Washington D.C. 2001) 285-292.

W. F. Wyatt, “The Indo-Europeanization of Greece,” in G. Cardona, H. M. Hoenigswald, and A. Senn (eds.), Indo-European and Indo-Europeans (Philadelphia 1970) 89-111.

S. Zimmer, “The Investigation of Proto-Indo-European History: Methods, Problems, Limitations,” in T. L. Markey and J. A. C. Greppin (eds.), When Worlds Collide: The Indo-Europeans and the Pre-Indo-Europeans (Ann Arbor 1990) 311-344.

M. and K. V. Zvelebil, “Agricultural Transition and Indo-European Dispersals,” Antiquity 62 (1988) 574-583.

M. and K. V. Zvelebil, “Agricultural Transition, 'Indo-European Origins' and the Spread of Farming,” in T. L. Markey and J. A. C. Greppin (eds.), When Worlds Collide: The Indo-Europeans and the Pre-Indo-Europeans (Ann Arbor 1990) 237-266.


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