Jonathan Slocum, Interim Director :: PCL 5.112, 1 University Station S5490 :: Austin, TX 78712 :: 512-471-4566
Indo-European Documentation Center
Indo-European Culture
Carol Justus and Jonathan Slocum
Indo-European culture includes what we know about how people who spoke an IE language over a period of more than four thousand years organized themselves, what institutions they had, and what kinds of material culture their lifestyle presupposed. For example, because of the words that we can reconstruct for the Proto-Indo-European language, we assume that they ate fish, knew about horses, had domesticated animals such as sheep, goats, and cattle, and had extended families organized around a patriarch.
[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
- Counting and Numerals
- Religion and World View
- Writing and Scripts
- History, Records of Deeds
- Settlement Patterns, Entertainment & Sports
- Occupations, Economy, Land Control
- Social & Political Organization, Kinship & Gender
- Laws, Legal Texts
- School Texts, Tutors
- Musical Instruments, Singers, Musical Notation
- Art & Architechture, Colors
- Languages, Language, Text Genre
- Natural Phenomena
- Sickness, Healing, Rituals
- Plant and Animal Husbandry, Viticulture
- Crafts, Clothing, Shelter, Metals, Tools, Transportation
- Weapons, Chariots, ... , Warfare
- Ships