Language and prehistory of the Indo-European peoples

• Introduction: Some histories behind this book
• p. 1

• Part I
• The origin and evolution of language

• The origin of language - what do we know, what can we know?
• p. 9

• Dynamical aspects of the origin and evolution of language
• p. 23

• Genes and populations
• p. 47

• Part II
• Proto-Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans

• On the emergence, contacts and dispersal of Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan in an archaeological perspective
• p. 77

• On the epistemology of Indo-European studies
• p. 89

• Reconstruction and realism in Indo-European linguistics
• p. 107

• Linguistics, poetics, and mythology: Is there still room for Indo-Europeans in the academic study of religion?
• p. 123

• The comparative study of Indo-European religions - presuppositions, problems and prospects
• p. 137

• Physical anthropology and the Aryan question: A historical overview and a few words of warning
• p. 173

• Part III
• The Indo-Europeanization of Europe

• The Indo-Europeans and the non-Indo-Europeans in prehistoric Northern Europe
• p. 187

• Die Urheimat der Germanen
• p. 205

• Dramatic beginnings of Norway's history? Archaeology and Indo-Europeanization
• p. 229

• Lies, locks or light - theories about Loki's origins
• p. 251

• The Germanic bride and her cognates
• p. 261

• Early sources for the Baltic Pantheon
• p. 267

• Again on the etymology for Lithuanian raistas 'bog', rõjus 'paradise' and the prediction of bog bodies
• p. 289

• Einige Bemerkungen zu Roma
• p. 307

• Völkerwanderungen in Herodots Geschichtswerk: Indogermanische Männerbünde und Landnahmesagen
• p. 317