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Ancient Kinship Words Survive Largely Intact
- The Indo-European vocabulary preserved close kinship terms like father, mother, brother and sister with little change.
- These terms reveal deep continuity in family structure across millennia.
Language Points To A Patriarchal Society
- Indo-European languages show many male kin terms but few female equivalents, implying patrilineal inheritance.
- Linguists infer brides likely lived with husbands' families and male lines held authority.
Evidence For Clan-Based Political Organization
- A reconstructed word meaning tribal or clan chieftain implies Indo-Europeans organized in small clans, not large kingdoms.
- Archaeology later supports emergence of village chiefs and hierarchical burials.