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Old European languages, the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Europe prior to the spread of the Indo-European and Uralic families; Old European script, Vinča symbols; Old European hydronymy (c. 2500 – c. 1500 BC), in Central and Western Europe "Old Europe", a term for pre-modern (i.e. pre-1800) European history coined by Austrian ...
Old Europe is a term coined by the Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age culture or civilisation in Southeast Europe, centred in the Lower Danube Valley. [1] [2] [3] Old Europe is also referred to in some literature as the Danube ...
Map of known Paleo-European languages, including substrate languages.. The Paleo-European languages (sometimes also called Old European languages) [1] [2] are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Neolithic (c. 7000 – c. 1700 BC) and Bronze Age Europe (c. 3200 – c. 600 BC) prior to the spread of the Indo-European and Uralic families of languages.
5000 – 3500 BC: First European proto-script – the Old European script (Danubian script). [183] [184] [185] 3850 – 3600 BC: Malta's Temple period begins. 3500 BC: First European civilization, Minoan civilization, begins on Crete. 3000 BC: Indo-Europeans begin a large-scale settlement of the continent. 2500 BC: Stonehenge is constructed.
Gothic (the most archaic well-documented Germanic language, AD c. 350), along with the combined witness of the other old Germanic languages: most importantly, Old English (c. 800 –1000), Old High German (c. 750 –1000) and Old Norse (c. 1100 –1300 AD, with limited earlier sources dating to AD c. 200).
Paleolithic Europe, or Old Stone Age Europe, encompasses the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age in Europe from the arrival of the first archaic humans, about 1.4 million years ago until the beginning of the Mesolithic (also Epipaleolithic) around 10,000 years ago. This period thus covers over 99% of the total human presence on the European continent. [1]
Old Europe and New Europe are terms used to contrast parts of Europe with each other in a rhetorical way. In the 21st century, the terms have been used by conservative political analysts in the United States to describe post-Communist era countries in Central and Eastern Europe as 'newer' and parts of Western Europe as 'older', suggesting that ...
Language/dialect Family Date of extinction Region Ethnic group(s) Aeolic Greek: Indo-European: 300 BC [citation needed]: Aeolis, Boeotia, Lesbos, Thessaly: Aeolians: Aequian: Indo-European