Axel Palmér: Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in the Rigveda and Beyond
- Date: 25 February 2025, 10:15–12:00
- Location: SCAS, Thunberg Lecture Hall, Villavägen 6c, Uppsala
- Type: Seminar
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- Organiser: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
- Contact person: Mattias Bolkéus Blom
Axel Palmér (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study & Leiden University) will give a seminar on the topic “Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in the Rigveda and Beyond ". The seminar will be followed by a Q&A session. Hybrid event - see the webpage for the Zoom link.
ABSTRACT:
In my research, I try to find points of intersection between linguistics and archaeology, by comparing linguistic reconstructions of prehistoric cultures with the archaeological record. In this talk, I will focus on how this type of research is conducted, giving you an extended introduction into historical linguistic methodology before going into the specific topic described in my title. In the latter, we will look at how agricultural practices are described in the Rigveda, the oldest religious poetry of India, and how we can use this text to go back even further into the prehistory of speakers of Indo-Iranian languages and the wider Indo-European language family.