Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Origin and Diffusion of Indo-European
- Proto-Indo-European
- existence cannot be proven
- would have existed
thousands of years
before the invention
of writing or recorded
history
- Nomadic Warrior Thesis
- Marija Gimbutes
- first speakers were the Kurgan people
- homeland in the steppes near the border
between present-day Russia and
Kazakhstan
- the Kurgans were
warriors who invaded
others
- they forced people to
speak their language
- this common language evolved into
Indo-European language family
- Sedentary Farmer Thesis
- Colin Renfrew
- first speakers lived 2,000 years
before the Kurgans
- lived in eastern Anatolia, part
of present-day Turkey
- the speakers were peaceful people
- they migrated to other places to farm
- thus spreading their language to other places
- this common language evolved into the
Indo-European language family
- Russell D. Gray
supports this, but
dates the first
speakers at around
6700 B.C.