Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

All chapters are well written and indeed the pleasingly readable style of the whole book must be applauded.
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