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

  • from Introduction
  • Edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden, Guus Kroonen, Universiteit Leiden, Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen
  • Book:
    The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
    Published online:
    29 April 2023
    Print publication:
    11 May 2023, pp 3-10

  • Summary

    We are currently experiencing what could be called the “third science revolution” (Kristiansen 2014). The implications of this revolution are reshaping not only archaeological discourse, but – even more fundamentally – the nature and perception of interdisciplinarity (Stutz 2018). The current reconfiguration offers unique new opportunities for collaboration across the sciences and humanities, as we will show, but can also provoke a strong emotional response. This is apparent from the at times fierce debates about the role of science in archaeological, archaeogenetic, and perhaps especially archaeolinguistic interpretation (Gray, Atkinson, & Greenhill 2011 vs. Pereltsvaig & Lewis 2015; Ion 2017 and 2019; Ribeiro 2019; Sørensen 2016). We also see old debates about the role of historical linguistics in archaeology resurfacing (Hansen 2019).

The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
  • Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics
  • Edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen, Eske Willerslev
  • Published online:
    29 April 2023
    Print publication:
    11 May 2023
  • This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team of scholars, it considers the driving forces behind the Indo-European migrations during the 3rd and 2nd millenia BC. The volume explores the rise of the world's first pastoral nomads the Yamnaya Culture in the Russian Pontic steppe including their social organization, expansions, and the transition from nomadism to semi-sedentism when entering Europe. It also traces the chariot conquest in the late Bronze Age and its impact on the expansion of the Indo-Iranian languages into Central Asia. In the final section, the volumes consider the development of hierarchical societies and the origins of slavery. A landmark synthesis of recent, exciting discoveries, the book also includes an extensive theoretical discussion regarding the integration of linguistics, genetics, and archaeology, and the importance of interdisciplinary research in the study of ancient migration.

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