The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World

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).

• List of Maps ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ; Introduction: How to Use This Book ; 1. Discovery ; 2. The Elements ; 3. Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European ; 4. The System ; 5. Relationships ; 6. A Place in Time ; 7. Reconstructing the Proto-Indo-Europeans ; 8. The Physical World ; 9. Indo-European Fauna ; 10. Indo-European Flora ; 11. Anatomy ; 12. Family and Kinship ; 13. Hearth and Home ; 14. Clothing and Textiles ; 15. Material Culture ; 16. Food and Drink ; 17. Society ; 18. Space and Time ; 19. Number and Quantity ; 20. Mind, Emotions and Sense Perception ; 21. Speech and Sound ; 22. Activities ; 23. Religion ; 24. Grammatical Categories ; 25. Comparative Mythology ; 26. Origins - The Never-ending Tale ; Basic Sound Correspondences Between PIE and the Major IE Groups ; A Proto-Indo-European-English Word-List ; An English-Proto-Indo-European Word-List ; References ; Index of Languages ; Index of Subjects and Places