By Professor Harold H. Bender. Written by a professor of
Indo-Germanic Philology in Princeton University, this masterpiece of
detective work pieces together evidence from the study of language,
geography, history and skeletal archaeology to establish the original
homeland of the Indo-European people.
Professor Bender points out that while linguistic relationship is not
itself sufficient proof of racial relationship, when combined with
archaeological, historical and skeletal evidence, it can provide
valuable indicators of common cultural ancestry.
His conclusion, after clinically researching the evidence for Asia
and Europe, is that the original home of the Indo-Europeans of the
“great plain of central and south-eastern Europe, which embraces,
roughly, the present Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Russia south and
west of the Volga.”
From the introduction:
“It was early evident that the speakers of these languages of Europe
and Asia were the heirs of a common culture and that their several
dialects were the descendants of a prehistoric tongue, the so-called
Indo-European, which was not identical with that of the Hebrews, the
Babylonians, the Egyptians, or other ancient peoples.
“The Indo-Europeans emerge from the obscurity of antiquity as
independent nations, scatted from the arctic circle to the equator and
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Bay of Bengal . . . The Celts were not
always in Britain, nor the Hellenes in Greece, nor the Hindus in India.
They must all have been descended in some way from some localized
prehistoric group of people who were united by a common speech and a
common civilization.”
Cover illustration: A map of the Indo-European languages.
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