商品簡介
The middle of the second millennium BC witnessed the first mention of Indo-Iranian people and of names in its language. Kuz'mina (archaeology, Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Moscow) explores how the group split from other Indo-European speakers to become a distinct people, later itself split into several sub-groups. She draws on written evidence, linguistic data, and archaeological sources concerning the material culture of the group and its parts. She also considers anthropological sources. This study is a complete revision of her Where Do Indo-Aryans Come From?, published in 1994 in Russian. She warns that no arrangement of evidence points reliably to an original homeland. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Elena Efimovna Kuz'mina, Ph.D. (1964) in Archaeology, Moscow State University, is Professor of Archaeology since 1988, and is the Head scholar of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research (Moscow, Russia). She is also Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Corresponding Fellow of the German Archaeological Institute and Member of the Societa Iranologica Europea (Italy). She has published 300 articles and 9 books on the archaeology of Eurasian Steppes and origins of Indo-Iranians, including Otkuda prishli indoarii (Moscow , 1994) and Mifologiya i iskusstvo skifov i baktriytsev (Moscow, 2002).J.P. Mallory, Ph.D. (1975) in Indo-European Studies (European Archaeology), University of California, Los Angeles, is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Queen's University, Belfast.
