Introduction

1. 1Re-theorizing Interdisciplinarity, and the Relation between Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics

   Kristian Kristiansen and Guus Kroonen

Part IEarly Indo-European and the Origin of Pastoralism

1. 2The Yamnaya Culture and the Invention of Nomadic Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes

   David W. Anthony

2. 3Yamnaya Pastoralists in the Eurasian Desert Steppe Zone: New Perspectives on Mobility

   Natalia I. Shishlina

3. 4Proto-Indo-Anatolian, the “Anatolian Split” and the “Anatolian Trek”: A Comparative Linguistic Perspective

   Alwin Kloekhorst

Part IIMigratory Processes and Linguistic Dispersals between Yamnaya and the Corded Ware

1. 5The Corded Ware Complex in Europe in Light of Current Archaeogenetic and Environmental Evidence

   Wolfgang Haak, Martin Furholt, Martin Sikora, Adam Ben Rohrlach, Luka Papac, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Volker Heyd, Morten Fischer Mortensen, Anne Brigitte Nielsen, Johannes Müller, Ingo Feeser, Guus Kroonen, and Kristian Kristiansen

2. 6Emergent Properties of the Corded Ware Culture: An Information Approach

   Quentin Bourgeois and Erik Kroon

3. 7Linguistic Phylogenetics and Words for Metals in Indo-European

   Thomas Olander

4. 8Word Mining: Metal Names and the Indo-European Dispersal

   Rasmus Thorsø, Andrew Wigman, Anthony Jakob, Axel I. Palmér, Paulus van Sluis, and Guus Kroonen

Part IIIThe Cultural and Linguistic Significance of Bell Beakers along the Atlantic Fringe

1. 9From the Steppe to Ireland: The Impact of aDNA Research

   J. P. Mallory

2. 10Beaker Culture Metal and Mobility in Atlantic Europe: Some Implications for Genetic and Language Origins

   William O’Brien

3. 11“From the Ends of the Earth”: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Long-Distance Contact in Bronze Age Atlantic Europe

   John T. Koch and Johan Ling

4. 12With the Back to the Ocean: The Celtic Maritime Vocabulary

   David Stifter

5. 13European Prehistory between Celtic and Germanic: The Celto-Germanic Isoglosses Revisited

   Paulus van Sluis, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, and Guus Kroonen

Part IVThe Bronze Age Chariot and Wool Horizons

1. 14Relative and Absolute Chronologies of the Chariot Complex in Northern Eurasia and Early Indo-European Migrations

   Igor V. Chechushkov and Andrey Epimakhov

2. 15Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Wagon Terminology and the Date of the Indo-Iranian Split

   Alexander Lubotsky

3. 16Fire and Water: The Bronze Age of the Southern Urals and the Rigveda

   Andrey Epimakhov and Alexander Lubotsky

4. 17Wool Fibers of the Northern Eurasian Bronze Age: The Cultural and Geographical Contexts

   Natalia I. Shishlina, Polina S. Ankusheva, Olga V. Orfinskaya, and Daria V. Kiseleva

5. 18An Archaeolinguistic Approach to Indo-European Wool Terminology

   Birgit A. Olsen

Part VKinship Systems, Marriage, Fosterage, Free, and Unfree

1. 19Mobility, Kinship, and Marriage in Indo-European Society

   Tijmen Pronk

2. 20Marriage Strategies and Fosterage among the Indo-Europeans: A Linguistic Perspective

   Birgit A. Olsen

3. 21Fostering Women and Mobile Children in Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Central Europe

   Philipp W. Stockhammer

4. 22Hiding in Plain Sight? The Enigma of the Linguistic Remains of Prehistoric Slavery

   Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead

Concluding Reflections

1. 23New Directions in Archaeogenetics and Archaeolinguistics: Recapitulation and Outlook

   Guus Kroonen and Kristian Kristiansen