"One linguist’s Indo-European names become another’s proto-Basque, or Caucasian or anything else."
— J. P. Mallory

January 1, 1970

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Mallory, J. P. and Adams, D. Q. 2006. Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. quoted in Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022)