When worlds collide
Subtitle: the Indo-Europeans and pre-Indo-Europeans : the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Lake Como, Italy, February 8-13, 1988
By: presented by T.L. Markey & John A.C. Greppin.
Contributors: Markey, Thomas L.; Greppin, John A. C.; Bellagio Study and Conference Center.
Series: Linguistica extranea -- 19
Publisher: Karoma Publishers
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780897200905
Subjects: Indo-Europeans -- Congresses.; Proto-Indo-European language -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "The Bellagio papers"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Welcome remarks : when cultures collide - the Indo-Europeans and pre-Indo-Europeans / Thomas Markey; value: On the problem of an Asiatic original homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans / Thomas V. Gamkrelidze; value: Archaeology and linguistics : some preliminary issues / Colin Renfrew; value: Did Armenians live in Asia anterior before the twelfth century B.C.? / Gevork B. Djahukian; value: Domestication of plants in the Old World : the emerging synthesis / Daniel Zohary; value: The Indo-European impact on the human world / Charles Burney; value: Language contacts in the Caucasus and the Near East / Igor M. Diakonoff; value: Kartvelian contacts with Indo-European / Alice C. Harris; value: The inception of farming in the British Isles and the emergence of Indo-European languages in NW Europe / Roger J. Mercer; value: Astronomical and geometrical influences on monumental design : clues to changing patterns of social tradition? / Clive Ruggles; value: The Mafia hypothesis / Antonio Gilman; value: The collision of two ideologies / Marija Gimbutas; value: The postulated pre-Indo-European substrates in insular Celtic and Tocharian / Karl Horst Schmidt; value: The make-up of the Armenian unclassified substratum / John A.C. Greppin; value: The Indo-European horse / Eric P. Hamp; value: Arménien et Iranien : une théorie linguistique passée inaperçue / Giancarlo Bolognesi; value: Agricultural transition, "Indo-European origins" and the spread of farming / Marek Zvelebil and Kamil V. Zvelebil; value: Types of linguistic evidence for early contact : Indo-Europeans and non-Indo-Europeans / Edgar C. Polomé; value: The pre-Indo-European language of Northern (Central) Europe / Eric P. Hamp; value: The investigation of Proto-Indo-European history : methods, problems, limitations / Stefan Zimmer; value: Gift, payment and reward revisited / Thomas L. Markey; value: Indo-Européens et pré-Indo-Européens dans la Péninsule Ibérique / Francisco Villar.