Tracing the Indo-Europeans: Origin and migration
As the research project Roots of Europe – language, culture, and migrations is now entering its final year, the time has come for tying up loose ends. This will hopefully happen at the interdisciplinary three-day seminar Tracing the Indo-Europeans – origin and migrations where some of the leading scholars within the fields of archaeology, genetics and Indo-European linguistics will present us with the most important results of their research. Together they will try to find a consensus on the much-debated question of the Indo-Europeans homeland and the migrations of the Indo-Europeans.
The invited speakers are:
- Prof. David W. Anthony, Hartwick College, NY
- Prof. James P. Mallory, University of Belfast
- Prof. Kristian Kristiansen, University of Gothenburg
- Prof. Dorcas R. Brown, Hartwick College, NY
- Prof. Einar Østmo, University of Oslo
- Dr. Anne Marie Carstens, Copenhagen
- Dr. Morten Allentoft, University of Copenhagen
- Dr. Åsa Fredell, University of Gothenburg
- Dr. Guus Kroonen, Roots of Europe, University of Copenhagen
- MA Adam Hyllested, Roots of Europe, University of Copenhagen
The seminar will be held 12-14 December 2012.
Wednesday 12 December 2012, in room 23.0.50:
11:00-11:30 Dorcas Brown: Midwinter dog sacrifices at LBA Krasnosamarskoe, Russia, and traces of initiations for Männerbünde · video
11:35-12:05 Einar Østmo: A linking chord · video
12:10-12:40 Adam Hyllested: Indo-European homeland and dispersals: Contemporary linguistic evidence · video
12:40-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Guus Kroonen: The linguistic heritage of the European Neolithic: non Indo-European words in Germanic · video
14:35-15:05 Anne Marie Carstens: To bury a ruler [aflyst]
15:10-15:40 Åsa Fredell: Indo-European narrative themes in Rock art: Inheritage and contacts · video
Thursday 13 December 2012, in room 22.0.11:
11:00-12:00 James Mallory: The problem of Tocharian origins · video
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 David Anthony: Early Indo-European migrations, economies, and
phylogenies · video
14:30-15:30 Kristian Kristiansen: Trade, travels and the transmission of cultural
change in the Bronze Age · video
Friday 14 December 2012, in room 27.0.09:
12:00-12:30 Morten Allentoft: Using ancient DNA to study human evolution and migration · video
12:35-13:35 David Anthony: Wheeled vehicles, horses, and Indo-European origins · video
13:35-13:50 Coffee break
13:50-14:50 Kristian Kristiansen: The Bronze Age expansion of Indo-European languages · video
14:50-15:00 Break
15:00-16:00 James Mallory: Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Nostratic: A brief excursus into the comparative study of proto-languages · video
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-18:00 Round table discussion · video
There will be no live-streaming of this event, but shortly after there will be an edited version of the seminar available online.
The seminar is open to the public and registration is not required.
