Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family:
Papers presented at a Colloquium hosted
by the University of Richmond, March 18-19, 2000
Monograph No. 38 — Edited by Robert Drews
The papers in this monograph are the product of a symposium organized
to investigate the validity of, and interrelationship between several
theories. Prominent amongst these were the Indo-Hittite theory that
Proto-Indo-European arose amongst the languages of the Greater
Anatolian landmass lying between the Aegean and the Caspian, the claim
by Gamkrelidze and Ivanov that proto-Indo-European was spoken in the
valleys of the middle Kura and Arexas just west of the Caspian, and the
argument by Colin Renfrew that Proto-Indo-European had originated
amongst early cultivators in southern Anatolia and had been carried
into Europe along with knowledge of farming.
Robert Drews: Introduction and Acknowledgments, Opening Remarks;
E.J.W. Barber:
The Clues in the Clothes—Some
Independent Evidence for the Movement
of Families;
Paul Zimansky: Archaeological Inquiries into Ethno-Linguistic Diversity in Urartu;
Peter Ian Kuniholm:
Dendrochronological Perspectives on Greater
Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language
Family; Discussion Session, Saturday
Morning;
Colin Renfrew: The Anatolian Origins of Proto-Indo-European and the Autochthony of the Hittites;
Jeremy Rutter:
Critical Response to the First Four
Papers; Discussion Session, Saturday
Afternoon;
Margalis Finklelberg: The Language of Linear A—Greek, Semitic, or Anatolian?;
Alexander Lehrmann: Reconstructing Indo-Hittite;
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov: Southern Anatolian and Northern Anatolian as Separate Indo-European Dialects and Anatolian as a Late Linguistic Zone;
Bill J. Darden: On the Question of the Anatolian Origin of Indo-Hittite;
Craig Melchert: Critical Response to the Last Four Papers; Discussion Session—Saturday Morning;
Robert Drews: Greater Anatolia, Proto-Anatolian, Proto-Indo-Hittite, and Beyond;
Geoffrey D. Summers:
Appendix—Questions Raised by the Identification of Neolithic,
Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Horse Bones in Anatolia. Index.