One can purchase maps in outline and other form in copyright-free format and use them as a base for ones own maps. Photoshop or Illustrator is what you need to create your own maps on that basis. I know, I’ve done it.
All of these cost money because someone has spent a great deal of time (speaking from experience) creating these. But if you are determined to create custom maps, you need to start with a base map and build from there.
The Appendix of Indo-European Roots (Appendix I) that follows this essay is designed to allow the reader to trace English words derived from Indo-European languages back to their fundamental components in Proto-Indo-European, the parent language of all ancient and modern Indo-European languages…
...Archaeologists have not in fact succeeded in locating the Indo-Europeans. An artifact other than a written record is silent on the language of its user, and prehistoric Eurasia offers an abundant choice of culture areas. Archaeologists are generally agreed that the so-called Kurgan peoples, named after the Russian word for their characteristic “barrow” or “tumulus” grave structure, spoke an Indo-European language. The correlation between the Kurgan cultural features described by archaeologists and the Indo-European lexicon is striking: for example, small tribal units (teut-) ruled by powerful chieftains (reg-), a predominantly pastoral (p-) economy including horse (ekwo-) breeding (dem-) and plant cultivation (yewo-), and architectural features such as a small subterranean or aboveground rectangular hut (*dom-, dem-) of timber uprights (*kli-t-, klei-, and *stu-t-, st-, still with us in English STUD). 104
Sometime around the middle of the fifth millennium B.C., these people expanded from the steppe zone north of the Black Sea and beyond the Volga into the Balkans and adjacent areas. These Kurgan peoples bore a new mobile and aggressive culture into Neolithic Europe, and it is not unreasonable to associate them with the coming of the Indo-Europeans. But the Kurgan peoples’ movement into Europe took place in distinct waves from the fifth to the third millennium B.C. The earliest so far discovered might be compatible with a reasonable date for Proto-Indo-European, that is, a date sufficiently long ago for a single language to develop into forms as divergent as Mycenaean Greek and Hittite as they are historically attested by the middle of the second millennium B.C. But the subsequent Kurgan immigrations, after 4000 B.C., are too late to be regarded as incursions of speakers of undifferentiated Proto-Indo-European. The archaeological evidence for the later waves of Kurgan migrations points to their having had an Indo-European culture, but the languages spoken by the later Kurgan peoples must have been already differentiated Indo-European dialects, some of which would doubtless evolve into some of the historical branches of the family tree. We must be content to recognize the Kurgan peoples as speakers of certain Indo-European languages and as sharing a common Indo-European cultural patrimony. The ultimate “cradle” of the Indo-Europeans may well never be known, and language remains the best and fullest evidence for prehistoric Indo-European society. It is the comparative method in historical linguistics that can illumine not only ancient ways of life but also ancient modes of thought.
Indo-European Roots
ENTRY: wegh-
DEFINITION: To go, transport in a vehicle. Oldest form *weh-, becoming *wegh- in centum languages.
Derivatives include weight, away, wagon, earwig, devious, trivial, and vex.
1. weigh1, from Old English wegan, to carry, balance in a scale, from Germanic *wegan. 2. wee, from Old English wg(e), weight, unit of weight, from Germanic lengthened-grade form *wg. 3. Suffixed form *wegh-ti-. weight, from Old English wiht, gewiht, weight, from Germanic *wihti-. 4a. way; always, away, from Old English weg, way; b. Norwegian, from Old Norse vegr, way; c. thalweg, from Old High German weg, way. a–c all from Germanic *wegaz, course of travel, way. 5. Suffixed o-grade form *wogh-no-. a. wain, from Old English wæ(g)n, wagon; b. wagon, from Middle Dutch wagen, wagon. Both a and b from Germanic *wagnaz. 6. Suffixed o-grade form *wogh-lo-. a. walleyed, from Old Norse vagl, chicken roost, perch, beam, eye disease, from Germanic *waglaz; b. ochlocracy, ochlophobia, from Greek okhlos, populace, mob (< “moving mass”). 7. Distantly related to this root are: a. (i) graywacke, from Old High German waggo, wacko, boulder rolling on a riverbed, from Germanic *wag-, “to move about”; (ii) wag1, from Middle English waggen, to wag, possibly from Germanic *wag-; b. vogue, from Old French voguer, to row, sail, from Old Saxon *wogn, to rock, sway, from Germanic *wga-, water in motion; c. (i) earwig, from Old English wicga, insect (< “thing that moves quickly”); (ii) wiggle, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German wiggelen, to move back and forth, wag. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *wig-. 8. Basic form *wegh-. vector, vehement, vehicle; advection, convection, evection, invective, inveigh, from Latin vehere (past participle vectus), to carry. 9. Suffixed basic form *wegh-y-. foy, via, viatical, voyage; convey, convoy, deviate, devious, envoi, envoy1, invoice, obviate, obvious, ogee, ogive, pervious, previous, trivial, trivium, viaduct, from Latin via, way, road. 10. Suffixed form *wegh-s-. vex, from Latin vexre, to agitate (< “to set in motion”). 11. Probably suffixed form *wegh-so-. convex, from Latin convexus, “carried or drawn together (to a point),” convex (com-, together; see kom). (Pokorny eh- 1118.) 1
Nevalı Çori (flooded by a dam in Turkey) - 10000 BC
Gravettian figures - (link doesn’t work - search “Venus of Dolní Věstonice” in wikipedia) (Czech Republic) - earliest known ceramics 29,000 to 25,000 BC
Aurignacian culture - between 32,000 and 26,000 BC (Europe and southwest Asia)
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OK. It’s safe to say I know almost nothing about archaeology… This is getting ridiculous.
Interesting, although I’ve never been able to understand why anyone would carve nudes of what are obviously older women, from the body features shown.
There are a number of other carvings shown on this page, the reliability of which I am not certain, i.e., it’s not a university or general archaeological site that I know of. But the author has a home page as well listing Resources for the study of Palaeolithic European, Russian and Australian Archaeology
The Linguistics Research Center (LRC), founded in 1961 at the University of Texas, is an organized research unit in the College of Liberal Arts. For more information about the LRC, including our staff & associates, publications, current projects, a brief history mentioning past projects, and contact information including our office address and phone number, see: About the LRC.
This site contains thousands of web pages, most of them devoted to ancient Indo-European languages and cultures. (For novices, all Indo-European languages are descended from a common ancestral tongue called Proto-Indo-European, spoken about 5,000 years ago before the invention of writing. This language as such died out, leaving ten or more dialects that eventually evolved into the many Indo-European languages of recorded history and the present, for example Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Russian, and English. For notes on the emergence in the late 18th century of the field of study that led to these and other discoveries, see: What is Historical Linguistics?) This site is organized more or less as our projects are organized…
Race Life of the Aryan Peoples is a history of the Indo-Europeans written by Joseph Pomeroy Widney It was published in New York by Funk & Wagnells in 1907. In this massive best-selling two volume work Joseph Pomeroy Widney describes in Volume One the origin of the Aryans (i.e., the Proto-Indo-Europeans) in what is now Ukraine about 5000 BC, and how they spread out and formed the great Aryan empires such as the Hittite empire, Persian empire, Mauryan empire, Macedonian empire, Roman empire, Gupta empire, Spanish empire, French empire, and British empire; in Volume Two is described the major present-day subraces of the Aryans (i.e., the Indo-Europeans) and their varying racial characteristics, i.e., the Indo-Aryans (including the Sinhalese and Maldivians), Indo-Iranians (including Armenians), Balts, Slavs, Gypsies, Albanians, Greeks, Romanics, Nordics, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Americans, Québécois, North American White Hispanics, White Latin Americans, Anglo-Australians, Anglo-New Zealanders, Anglo-Africans, and Boers.
More Widney:
Joseph Pomeroy Widney (December 26, 1841 — July 4, 1938) was a polymathic pioneer American physician, medical topographer, scholar-educator, clergyman, entrepreneur-philanthropist, proto-environmentalist, prohibitionist, philosopher of religion, Racial theorist, and prolific author. He served as the second President of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California and as the founding dean of the USC School of Medicine, and was one of the co-founders and first general superintendents of the Church of the Nazarene, and the primary founder of the Los Angeles County Medical Association. One of the “most conspicuous Southern Californians of his generation”, Widney was a cultural leader in Los Angeles for nearly seventy years and the “mystic seer in residence and prophet of Southern Californian Anglo-Saxonism”.
And also see:
Houston Stewart Chamberlain: Anglo-German Historian, playwright, cultural critic, race theorist and philosopher of science.
hschamberlain.net
