Proto

A rigorous account of the Indo-European language family's origins, tracing the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European from a single ancestral tongue into the dozens of modern languages spoken across Europe and Asia. The book synthesizes linguistics, archaeology, and genetics to build a case for the Kurgan hypothesis — that the language spread from Bronze Age pastoralists on the Pontic-Caspian steppe — while weighing competing theories about its true point of origin.