Mikhailovka I Late Eneolithic culture, Ukraine
Mikhailovka II Early Bronze Age settlement, Ukraine
Mitanni kingdom, Syria
Mokhrablur settlement, Armenia
Moliukhor Bugor settlement, Ukraine
15N in human bone
Nalchik cemeteries, Russia: Early BronzeAge kurgan; Eneolithic cemetery
Nichols, Johanna
Nikol’skoe cemetery, Ukraine
nomads and nomadic pastoralism
Novosvobodnaya kurgan cemetery, Russia
Nuer pastoralists, Africa
oaths in Indo-European
Old Europe
Olsen, Sandra
Ostanni kurgan, Russia
Pathan tribe and language shift
patrilineality. See gender and power
Persian language
Peschanyi Dol herding camps, Russia
Petrovka culture, Middle Bronze Age, Russia
Phrygian language
Plachidol kurgan, Bulgaria
poetry in Indo-European
Pokrovka phase of the Late Bronze Age, Russia
Polivanov Yar settlement, Ukraine
Poltavka culture, Middle Bronze Age, Russia
Post-Mariupol culture, Ukraine
Potapovka culture, Middle Bronze Age, Russia
praise of the gift
Proto-Indo-European language; beginning date; cladistic analyses of; homeland; link to Caucasian; link to Proto-Uralic; phases within; reconstruction of; religion in; terminaldate
race
radiocarbon dating
Rakushechni Yar settlement, Ukraine
Rassamakin, Y.
Razdorskoe settlement, Russia
Renfrew, Colin
Repin Late Eneolithic culture, Russia
Rig Veda
Ringe, Don
Romantic movement
Rostovka cemetery, Siberia
ruki rule
Samara Early Eneolithic culture, Russia
Samara Valley Project
Samsonovka settlement, Ukraine
Sanskrit language; links with Sintashta culture; non-Indo-Iranian borrowed vocabulary; Old Indic phase
Sapir, Edward
Sarazm tell, Tajikistan
satm languages
Schleicher, August
Scythians
Sé Girdan tombs, Iran
secondary products revolution
Seima-Turbino culture
Sergeivka settlement, Kazakhstan
Shar-i Sokhta tell, Iran
Sherratt, Andrew
Shulaveri settlement, Georgia
Sintashta culture, Russia: animal sacrifices; cemeteries; chariots; chronology; economy; fortified settlements; link to Central Asia; link to Indo-Iranian; metals; origins; sources; weapons
Slavic languages
social hierarchy among steppe herders
Soroki settlements, Ukraine
sound change. See language change
Spondylus shell ornaments
Sprachbund. See language borrowing
Sredni Stog I, Early Eneolithic settlement, Ukraine
Sredni Stog II, Late Eneolithic culture, Ukraine: cemeteries; ceramics; chronology; origins; relations with the North Caucasus; relations with Old Europe; roleof horses; settlements
Srubnaya culture, Russia; chronology and growth; copper mines; diet; dog sacrifice; graves; settlements
Surskii Neolithic settlement, Ukraine
Suvorovo-Novodanilovka complex, Ukraineand Danube; and Anatolian languages; and Bolgrad culture; copperobjects; at Csongrad; at Decea Mureşului; kurgan graves; and the North Caucasus; and horse-headmaces
Svobodnoe settlement, North Caucasus
Swadesh, Morris
S’yezzhe cemetery, Russia
Tarim Basin, China
Tashkovo II settlement, Russia
Telegin, D.Y.
Three Age system
tin trade
Tocharian languages
tree diagrams
Trichterbecker (TRB) culture, Poland
Trito myth
Troy citadel, Turkey
Tugai settlement, Uzbekistan
turquoise trade
Ur III kingdom
Uralic languages
Uruk, Iraq; and invention of thewheel; and wool
Usatovo culture, Ukraine; ceramics; chronology; economy; glass beads; graves; metals; social organization
Varfolomievka settlement, Russia
Varna cemetery, Bulgaria
Vasiliev, Igor B.
Vehik, Susan
Verethraghna, god of victory
Vinogradov, Nikolai
Volosovo forager culture, Russia
warfare; in the Abashevo culture; in the BMAC; in the end of Old Europe; in the Sintashtaculture; in Ur III; in the Yamnaya horizon
wheels; on battle wagons in Mesopotamia; invention and diffusion of; Proto-Indo-Europe an terms for; significance of; spoked; in wagon graves
wine
Wolf, Eric
wool
Yamnaya horizon, Ukraine and Russia; cemeteries in; chronology of; east-west differences in; economy of; metals in; origins of; settlements in; social organization in; wagon graves in
Yamnaya migrations; to the Altai Mts.; to the Danube valley; to the middle Dnieper; to the Tripolye region
Yasinovatka cemetery, Ukraine
Zarathustra
Zeder, Melinda
Zeus
Zvelebil, Marek
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