The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Palaeontology Book

	Introduction: the Nostratic Hypothesis, Linguistic Macrofamilies and Prehistoric Studies
	Classification of the Nostratic Languages	3
I	Indo-European	5
A	Anatolian	5
B	Narrow Indo-European	5
II	Hamito-Semitic (Afroasiatic)	5
A	Semitic	5
B	Egyptian	5
C	Berber	6
D	Cushitic	6
E	Omotic	6
F	Chadic	6
III	Kartvelian	7
IV	Uralic	7
A	Finno-Ugrian	7
B	Samoyedic	7
C	Yukagir	7
V	Altaic	7
A	Turkic	7
B	Mongolic	7
C	Tungusic	7
D	Korean	7
E	Japanese	8
VI	Dravidian	8
	The Linguistic Palaeontology of the Nostratic Macrofamily	9
	Transcription signs and other symbols	11
1	Nostratic macrofamily	17
2	Language relationship and history	18
3	Where and when?	19
3.1	Where?	19
3.2	When?	26
3.2.1	Neolithic? Agriculture, husbandry, pottery?	26
3.2.2	Mesolithic? Bow, arrows, fishing net?	33
4	Hunter-gatherers	38
4.1	Hunting	38
4.2	Gatherers	50
5	Food	55
6	Technological activities	64
7	Anatomy	80
8	Kinship	84
9	The realm of the supernatural	95
	Phonetic Correspondences	99
	References	107
	Index of Nostratic words	111