A Linguistic Map of Prehistoric Northern Europe
Tiivistelmä
What do we know about the prehistory of languages and cultures in areas, such as Northern Europe that do not have written documents or large extinct cities? For decades, archaeology and linguistics, two disciplines weaving together multiple interdisciplinary aspects have fostered a dialogue focusing on cultural and linguistic networks, mobility and contacts between people. This book sheds new light on cultural diffusion and language change in prehistoric Northern Europe with special emphasis on the northern Baltic Sea area. The rise of agriculture, identification of new cultural waves in terms of language are topics that outline the early prehistory in the North. The book contains twelve articles by linguists and archaeologists, evidence drawn from various Finno-Ugric and Indo-European languages, and up-to-date insights into the research of prehistoric Northern Europe.
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Preface
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IntroductionAn interdisciplinary perspective on prehistoric Northern Europe
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Cultivation among hunter-gatherers in Finland – evidence of activated connections?
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From Entities to InteractionReplacing pots and people with networks of transmission
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An essay on Saami ethnolinguistic prehistory
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Formation of the Indo-European and Uralic (Finno-Ugric) language families in the light of archaeologyRevised and integrated ‘total’ correlations
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Early Metallurgy in LanguageThe History of Metal Names in Finnic
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Phonological Innovations of the Southern Finnic Languages
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The Prehistoric Germanic Loanword Strata in Finnic
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Non-Indo-European root nouns in GermanicEvidence in support of the Agricultural Substrate Hypothesis
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The prehistoric context of the oldest contacts between Baltic and Finnic languages
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Baltic loanwords in Mordvin
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Why Baba-Yaga?Substratal phonetics and restoration of velars subject to the Progressive Palatalization in Russian/Belorussian and adjacent areas (appr. 600–900 CE)
