When Worlds Collide. Indo-Europeans and the Pre-Indo-Europeans

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Karoma Publishers, 1990. — 401 p. — (Linguistica Extranea, Studia 19). — ISBN: 0-89720-090-X.What evidence do we have for Non-Indo-European groups in Western Europe? Did the Indo-Europeans come by invasion, diffusion, immigration? Were they a majority or an elitist minority ? Does the “wave of advance model” really yield an adequate explanation of intrusion?Welcome Remarks: When Cultures Collide - The Indo-Europeans and Pre-Indo- Europeans (Thomas Markey).
On the Problem of an Asiatic Original Homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans (Thomas V. Gamkrelidze).
Archaeology and Linguistics: Some Preliminary Issues (Colin Renfrew).
Did Armenians Live in Asia Anterior Before the Twelfth Century B.C.? (Gevork B. Djahukian).
Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The Emerging Synthesis (Daniel Zohary).
The Indo-European Impact on the Hurrian World (Charles Burney).
Language Contacts in the Caucasus and the Near East (Igor M. Diakonoff).
Kartvelian Contacts with Indo-European (Alice C. Harris).
The Inception of Farming in the British Isles and the Emergence of Indo-European Languages in NW Europe (Roger J. Mercer).
Astronomical and Geometrical Influences on Monumental Design: Clues To Changing Patterns of Social Tradition? (Clive Ruggles).
The Mafia Hypothesis (Antonio Gilman).
The Collision of Two Ideologies (Marija Gimbutas).
The Postulated Pre-Indo-European Substrates in Insular Celtic and Tocharian (Karl Horst Schmidt).
The Make-Up of the Armenian Unclassified Substratum (John A. C. Greppin).
The Indo-European Horse (Eric P. Hamp).
Armenien et Iranien: Une Theorie Linguistique Passee Inapercue (Giancarlo Bolognesi).
Agricultural Transition, “Indo-European Origins” and the Spread of Farming (Marek Zvelebil and Kamil V. Zvelebil).
Types of Linguistic Evidence for Early Contact: Indo-Europeans and Non-Indo Europeans (Edgar C. Polome).
The Pre-Indo-European Language of Northern (Central) Europe (Eric P. Hamp).
The Investigation of Proto-Indo-European History: Methods, Problems, Limitations (Stefan Zimmer).
Gift, Payment and Reward Revisited (Thomas L. Markey).
Indo-Europeens et Pre-Indo-Europeens dans la Peninsule Iberique (Francisco Villar).
Dsscussion.