Early contacts between Uralic and Indo-European : linguistic and archaeological considerations : papers presented at an international symposium held at the Tvärminne Research Station of the University of Helsinki, 8-10 January, 1999

Papers presented at an international symposium held at the Tvärminne Research Station of the University of Helsinki 8–10 January, 1999. Over the years, there has been much speculation about the early identity and roots of the Uralic languages, and indeed, in recent years there seems to be a renewed interest in the topic. In fact, since the 1980's, linguists have begun to make concessions to archeologists, breaching an intellectual gulf that was considered pretty daunting up until that point, particularly due to differences in methods of study and dating. In addition, a well-known culture of academic cliquishness has always endured (as in practically every academic field) which lends credence to some ideas over others, while not necessarily putting either into the correct perspective. But, particularly in Finland, such topics have seen great national interest since the early 19th century, beginning with Castrén and continuing up to recent times with conferences and seminars on Finno-Ugric enthnohistory. One such meeting was the 3 day symposium on "Contacts between Indo-European and Uralic speakers in the Neolithic, Eneolithic and Bronze Age in the light of linguistic and archeological evidence", which was held at Tvärminne Research Station at the University of Helsinki in January, 1999. At that conference, the 18 papers and 4 abstracts that comprise this book were presented. Foreword 8 David W. Anthony / Persistent identity and Indo-European archaeology in the western steppes 11 Christian Carpelan / Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic settlement of the European north – possible linguistic implications 37 Christian Carpelan & Asko Parpola / Emergence, contacts and dispersal of Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan in archaeological perspective 55 H.-P. Francfort / The archaeology of protohistoric Central Asia and the problems of identifying Indo-European and Uralic-speaking populations 151 Kaisa Häkkinen / Prehistoric Finno-Ugric culture in the light of historical lexicology 169 Eugene Helimski / Early Indo-Uralic linguistic relationships: Real kinship and imagined contacts 187 Juha Janhunen / Indo-Uralic and Ural-Altaic: On the diachronic implications of areal typology 207 Petri Kallio / Phonetic Uralisms in Indo European? 221 Jorma Koivulehto / The earliest contacts between Indo-European and Uralic speakers in the light of lexical loans 235 L. L. Kosinskaya / The Neolithic period of north-western Siberia: The question of southern connections 265 E. E. Kuz'mina / Contacts between Finno-Ugric and Indo-Iranian speakers in the light of archaeological, linguistic and mythological data 289 Alexander Lubotsky / The Indo-Iranian substratum 301 J. Makkay / The earliest Proto-Indo-European–Proto-Uralic contacts: An upper Palaeolithic model 319 J. P. Mallory / Uralics and Indo-Europeans: Problems of time and space 345 Vladimir Napol'skikh / Tocharisch-uralische Berührungen: Sprache und Archäologie 367 Tapani Salminen / The rise of the Finno-Ugric language family 385 Pekka Sammallahti / The Indo-European loanwords in Saami 397 Peter Schrijver / Lost languages in northern Europe 417 Abstracts 427 E. N. Chernykh & S. V. Kuz'minykh / Ancient metallurgy in northern Eurasia: On the problem of contacts between the Indo-European- and Uralic-speaking peoples 429 Asya Engovatova / Chronology of the Volga-Oka valley Neolithic and Lyalovo migrations 431 V. I. Timofeev / Migrations, diffusion and uninterrupted development in the Stone Age of the forest zone of eastern Europe: Some remarks 433 Konstantin V. Voronin / The problem of interaction of cultural traditions in the Bronze Age in central Russia (Volga-Oka basin) 437 Contributors 439 Index 442 Edited By Christian Carpelan, Asko Parpola And Petteri Koskikallio. Based On Papers Presented At A Symposium Held Jan. 8-10, 1999. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English, With One Article In German.