xiv, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-335) and index
What song the sirens sang -- The Indo-European problem in outline -- Archaeology and the Indo-Europeans -- Lost languages and forgotten scripts: the Indo-European languages, old and new -- Homelands in question -- Language and language change -- Language, population and social organization: a processual approach -- Early language dispersals in Europe -- The early Indo-Iranian languages and their origins -- Ethnogenesis: who were the Celts? -- Indo-European mythologies -- Archaeology and Indo-European origins: an assessment