IE Newsletter

[Deborah W. Anderson]

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A new edition of the IE Newsletter has just appeared.
The essays contained in this issue focus on ancient Greece and
adjacent areas:
     Ivo Hajnal (Indogermanisches Seminar der Universitaet Zuerich) writes
          an update on Mycenaean
     Andreas Schachner (Vorgeschichtliches Seminar der Philipps-
          Universitaet, Marburg) reviews recent research in the archaeology of
          western Anatolia, which has ramifications for the prehistory of Greece
     Mark Hall (Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley) discusses
          advances in radiocarbon dating and suggests what this new work
          may mean for dating prehistoric Greece.
 
In "Notes & Brief Communications":
     We mark the passing of Oswald Szemerenyi with a short piece by
          Alfred Bammesberger;
     Konstantin Woebking (Universitaet Innsbruck) summarizes the
          September Indogermanische Gesellschaft meeting;
     Alfred Bammesberger provides a brief review of Helmut Birkhan's
          new book, Kelten: Versuch einer Gesamtdarstellung;
     Henning Andersen has written a synopsis of his latest work,
          Reconstructing Prehistorical Dialects: Initial vowels in Slavic and
          Baltic.
 
In "Report from the Field", Igor Manzura and Mark Tkachuk write on their
          Moldovan excavation that may represent a significant new
          Sarmatian site.
 
The Newsletter includes listings of new books, an update on electronic
resources for IE, a list of upcoming conferences, as well as IE books
available for review in the journals Word and Language.
 
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The newsletter is affiliated with the Indo-European Studies program at
UCLA and appears twice yearly.