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On another note, I have a copy of "In search of Indo-Europeans" from the library. I am about to start reading the book. Is it worth spending several days? Any reviews of the book do you know of?

Mallory expresses the classical view. One cannot fault linguistics for the conclusion which people fall into. Linguistics is a valid field of inquiry and i suppose Mallory is as qualified to write on the subject as any. Where linguistics falls short and provides little evidence, is the time scale over which migrations may have occurred or have been postulated. My own preference is Colin Renfrew 'Archaeology and Language - the puzzle of indo european origins, Cambridge University Press,1987.



A trap many europeans (and Indians ) fall into is that from the hypothesis that there existed a Indo european family of languages, there necessarily follows the conclusion that there existed a family of Indo-european people. All we know for certain at this point is that the IE family of languages were prevalent over a large portion of the eurasian land mass even in antiquity.



Here is one review [url="http://www.geocities.com/solarguard/pagan/searchindos.html"]http://www.geocities.com/solarguard/pagan/...earchindos.html[/url] .

As you can imagine views on this subject are for the most part polarized and depend on the camp to which the reviewer belongs.





Kaushal