The Linguistic Roots of Europe's Agricultural Transition

Project Information

EUROLITHIC

Grant agreement ID: 716732

DOI 10.3030/716732

Project closed

EC signature date 27 April 2017

Start date 1 July 2017

End date 30 June 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 578,00

EU contribution € 1 499 578,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Netherlands

Publications

Book chapters (4)

Armenian

Author(s): Birgit Anette Olsen, Rasmus Thorsø
Published in: The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective, 2022, Page(s) 202-222, ISBN 9781108499798
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781108758666.012

Word Mining: Metal Names and the Indo-European Dispersal

Author(s): Rasmus Thorsø,Andrew Wigman,Anthony Jakob,Axel I. Palmér,Paulus van Sluis,Guus Kroonen
Published in: The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, 2023, Page(s) 105-126, ISBN 9781009261746
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781009261753.012

Two Balkan Indo-European Loanwords

Author(s): Rasmus Thorsø
Published in: Dispersals and Diversification - Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Early Stages of Indo-European, 2020, Page(s) 251-262, ISBN 9789-004416192
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004416192_014

European Prehistory Between Celtic and Germanic: The Celto-Germanic Isoglosses Revisited

Author(s): Paulus van Sluis,Anders Richardt Jørgensen,Guus Kroonen
Published in: The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics, 2023, Page(s) 193-244, ISBN 9781009261746
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781009261753.018

Peer reviewed articles (12)

A New Look at Old Armenisms in Kartvelian

Author(s): Rasmus Thorsø
Published in: Armeniaca, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 97-110, ISSN 2974-6051
Publisher: Edizioni Ca'Foscari
DOI: 10.30687/arm/9372-8175/2022/01/006

Proto-Indo-European ‘fox’ and the reconstruction of an athematic ḱ-stem

Author(s): A.I. Palmér, A. Jakob, R. Thorsø, P. van Sluis, C. Swanenvleugel, G. Kroonen
Published in: Indo-European Linguistics, Issue 9(1), 2021, Page(s) 234-263, ISSN 2212-5892
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/22125892-bja10008

The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppe

Author(s): Pablo Librado, Naveed Khan, Antoine Fages, Mariya A. Kusliy, Tomasz Suchan, Laure Tonasso-Calvière, Stéphanie Schiavinato, Duha Alioglu, Aurore Fromentier, Aude Perdereau, Jean-Marc Aury, Charleen Gaunitz, Lorelei Chauvey, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Clio Der Sarkissian, John Southon, Beth Shapiro, Alexey A. Tishkin, Alexey A. Kovalev, Saleh Alquraishi, Ahmed H. Alfarhan, Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid, Ti
Published in: Nature, Issue 598, 2021, Page(s) 634–640, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04018-9

The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect

Author(s): Cosimo Posth, Valentina Zaro, Maria A. Spyrou, Stefania Vai, Guido A. Gnecchi-Ruscone, Alessandra Modi, Alexander Peltzer, Angela Mötsch, Kathrin Nägele, Åshild J. Vågene, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Rita Radzevičiūtė, Cäcilia Freund, Lorenzo M. Bondioli, Luca Cappuccini, Hannah Frenzel, Elsa Pacciani, Francesco Boschin, Giulia Capecchi, Ivan Martini, Adriana Moroni, Stefano Ricci, Alessandra Spe
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 7(39), 2021, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi7673

The rise of gemination in Celtic

Author(s): David Stifter
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: F1000 Research Limited on behalf of the European Commission
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.15400.1

Proto-Indo-European *sneigʷʰ- ‘to fall down; to snow’

Author(s): Guus Kroonen, Andrew Wigman, Rasmus Thorsø
Published in: Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics, Issue 134(1), 2021, Page(s) 214-224, ISSN 0935-3518
Publisher: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht
DOI: 10.13109/hisp.2021.134.1.214

The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

Author(s): Peter de Barros Damgaard, Rui Martiniano, Jack Kamm, J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Guus Kroonen, Michaël Peyrot, Gojko Barjamovic, Simon Rasmussen, Claus Zacho, Nurbol Baimukhanov, Victor Zaibert, Victor Merz, Arjun Biddanda, Ilja Merz, Valeriy Loman, Valeriy Evdokimov, Emma Usmanova, Brian Hemphill, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Fulya Eylem Yediay, Inam Ullah, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Katrine Højholt Iversen
Published in: Science, Issue 360/6396, 2018, Page(s) eaar7711, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aar7711

Talking Neolithic: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on How Indo-European Was Implemented in Southern Scandinavia

Author(s): Rune Iversen, Guus Kroonen
Published in: American Journal of Archaeology, Issue 121/4, 2017, Page(s) 511, ISSN 0002-9114
Publisher: Archaeological Institute of America
DOI: 10.3764/aja.121.4.0511

Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

Author(s): Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin M. Frei, Rune Iversen, Niels N. Johannsen, Guus Kroonen, Łukasz Pospieszny, T. Douglas Price, Simon Rasmussen, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Martin Sikora, Eske Willerslev
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 91/356, 2017, Page(s) 334-347, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2017.17

The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

Author(s): Martin Sikora, Vladimir V. Pitulko, Vitor C. Sousa, Morten E. Allentoft, Lasse Vinner, Simon Rasmussen, Ashot Margaryan, Peter de Barros Damgaard, Constanza de la Fuente, Gabriel Renaud, Melinda A. Yang, Qiaomei Fu, Isabelle Dupanloup, Konstantinos Giampoudakis, David Nogués-Bravo, Carsten Rahbek, Guus Kroonen, Michaël Peyrot, Hugh McColl, Sergey V. Vasilyev, Elizaveta Veselovskaya, Margarita Ge
Published in: Nature, Issue 570/7760, 2019, Page(s) 182-188, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1279-z

Beekeeping in Celtic and Indo-European

Author(s): Paulus van Sluis
Published in: Studia Celtica, Issue 56(1), 2022, Page(s) 1-28, ISSN 0081-6353
Publisher: University of Wales Press
DOI: 10.16922/sc.56.1

Indo-European Cereal Terminology Suggests a Northwest Pontic Homeland for the Core Indo-European Languages

Author(s): Guus Kroonen, Anthony Jakob, Axel I. Palmér, Paulus van Sluis, Andrew Wigman
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 17(10), 2022, Page(s) e0275744, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275744

Conference proceedings (1)

Lachmann’s law, Thurneysen’s law, and a new explanation of the PIE no-participles

Author(s): Guus Kroonen
Published in: Farnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky, 2018, Page(s) 143-151, ISBN 978-0-9895142-4-8
Publisher: Beechstave

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe—CORRIGENDUM

Author(s): Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin M. Frei, Rune Iversen, Niels N. Johannsen, Guus Kroonen, Łukasz Pospieszny, T. Douglas Price, Simon Rasmussen, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Martin Sikora, Eske Willerslev
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 94/375, 2020, Page(s) 839-839, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2020.84

Keltisch-Germaans taalcontact in de voorgeschiedenis

Author(s): Paulus van Sluis
Published in: Kelten: Mededelingen van de Stichting A. G. van Hamel voor Keltische Studies, Issue 2020, 2020, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 2542-5390
Publisher: Stichting A. G. van Hamel

Thesis and dissertations (1)

A History of East Baltic: Through Language Contact

Author(s): Anthony Jakob
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Leiden University