The second part of the ebook after the Tocharian section was written by Michael Schmidt and taken from his original writings. This part of our work has been released copyright free, provided that original credit is given. This paper presents this linguistic aspect of the RAW project and some preliminary findings. A linguistic aspect of this cross-disciplinary project is to re-examine the inherited word stock shared by Celtic and Germanic, but absent from the other Indo-European languages, exploring how these words might throw light onto the world of meaning of Bronze rock art and the people who made it. The RAW project undertakes an extensive programme of scanning and documentation to enable detailed comparison of the strikingly similar iconography of Scandinavian rock art and Iberian ‘warrior’ stelae. In the light of these discoveries, we launched a research project in 2019 - ‘Rock art, Atlantic Europe, Words & Warriors (RAW)’ - based at the University of Gothenburg and funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Second, by the Early Bronze Age, mass migrations emanating from the Pontic-Caspian steppe had reached both regions, probably bringing Indo-European languages with them. First, we find that Scandinavia and the Iberian Peninsula were in contact within a system of long-distance exchange of Baltic amber and Iberian copper. Recent discoveries in the chemical and isotopic sourcing of metals and ancient DNA have transformed our understanding of the Nordic Bronze Age in two key ways.
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