The Bactra Review   Ancient Goddesses

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General, but by no means unanimous. The eminent archaeologist Colin Renfrew, for instance, argues that Indo-European began in Anatolia or the northern part of the Fertile Crescent, and spread east and west with agriculture, thousands of years before the traditional late bronze age date. See his Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (Cambridge UP, 1988).