Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations

Papers presented at an international symposium held at the Tvärminne Research Station of the University of Helsinki 8-10 January, 1999.

Including articles: Christian Carpelan, Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic settlement of the European north - possible linguistic implications; Christian Carpelan & Asko Parpola, Emergence, contacts and dispersal of Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan in archaeological perspective; Kaisa Häkkinen, Prehistoric Finno-Ugric culture in the light of historical lexicology; Eugene Helimski, Early Indo-Uralic linguistic relationships: Real kinship and imagined contacts; Jorma Koivulehto, The earliest contacts between Indo-European and Uralic speakers in the light of lexical loans; L. L. Kosinskaya, The Neolithic period of north-western Siberia: The question of southern connections; Alexander Lubotsky, The Indo-Iranian substratum; J. P. Mallory, Uralics and Indo-Europeans: Problems of time and space; Tapani Salminen, The rise of the Finno-Ugric language family; Pekka Sammallahti, The Indo-European loanwords in Saami; Peter Schrijver, Lost languages in northern Europe.