This book, Indo-European And Its Speakers, is about some old European and
Middle Eastern extant words, not about the artificial “Proto-Indo-European
language” [PIE], or a Dictionary of its roots, or the history of researches and
theories the geographically defined Indo-European languages. It is a diary of
original, sporadic excursions, researches, and critiques in the field of postmegalithic
Proto-European cultural anthropology and, most emphatically, an
empirical archeology of some European and Mideastern words.
By etymologies and analyses, it shows that the source of various languages
(including Anglo-Saxon, Etruscan, Eblaite, and Basque) is Archaic Greek, its
epicenter being the Pre-Semitic Levant. The speakers were or are the Caucasians
who grew in *Proto-Europe, by the Euphrates, the Jordan, the Nile, the Tarim,
the Hindus, the Ebro, the Danube (Istros), the Thames, and the Tiber rivers.
The primordial “Greeks” created their own language, the alphabetical writing
of their language, grain agriculture, viticulture, and, once in the Aegean region
or, so to speak, in the shadow of Mount Olympus, the first Humanistic [“Age
of Men” or Intellectualistic] Civilization of world history.
This book, which is incidentally an auto-biography of a mind at work, is for
deliberately slow and studious readers who believe that “nihil humani mihi
alienum est” (nothing human is foreign to me). Oh, that sounds so scholarly!
No, no... It is for students and for people who, having no eternal future in
view, stretch their lives into the long past – antiquarians, archaeologists, and
philologians! Nevertheless, it calls for new researches and lays the basis for a
continued exploration, through languages, of the Pre-Semitic history of the
Fertile Crescent and the whole Middle East, for archaeology in Magna Graecia,
and for a new anthropogony (genealogy of humans).