On the origin of North-Indo-European

Статья // American Anthropologist. — 1952. — Vol. 54, no. 4 — pp. 602-611.In a recent paper Trager and Smith have presented a chronological scheme of the development of the Indo-Hittite group of languages, descended from a hypothetical tongue held to be the common parent language of Indo-European and Hittite. The year 3500 B.C. is set by the authors as the probable date of Indo-Hittite unity. This paper will analyze this hypothesis on the basis of archeological data in hand that bear on some aspects of the problem of the origin of the North European branch of Indo-European.