Early Indo-Europeans, in Accurate Historical Context — Christopher Beckwith

This essay is written in response to Ricardo Duchesne. In it Beckwith corrects many errors and in so doing illuminates many aspects of ancient Indo-Europeans and how modern people think about them. It is a very informative piece. ABN

Ricardo Duchesne’s reply to Martin Hewson’s review of his book, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization (2011), focuses on a number of important points concerning the impact of peoples speaking Indo-European languages in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. However, several of Duchesne’s key assertions need to be modified to accord with the data.

~Christopher Beckwith