the Uralic Continuity Theory is a theory about the Uralic languages developed by a group of archaeologists and linguists starting in the 1970s. Suggests that the Uralic speaking populations have an uninterrupted history of settlement in their present locations since the Mesolithic. Their precursor populations would have occupied mid-eastern Europe in the last glacial maximum and in the Mesolithic would have followed the retreating ice, eventually settling in their present territories.

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  • the Uralic Continuity Theory is a theory about the Uralic languages developed by a group of archaeologists and linguists starting in the 1970s. Suggests that the Uralic speaking populations have an uninterrupted history of settlement in their present locations since the Mesolithic. Their precursor populations would have occupied mid-eastern Europe in the last glacial maximum and in the Mesolithic would have followed the retreating ice, eventually settling in their present territories. The theory questions the validity of the chronology for the many Uralic loanwords from the contiguous Indo-European and Turkic languages. Mario Alinei has built on this theory for the purposes of his "Paleolithic Continuity Theory" of Indo-European origins.
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  • October 2008
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  • the Uralic Continuity Theory is a theory about the Uralic languages developed by a group of archaeologists and linguists starting in the 1970s. Suggests that the Uralic speaking populations have an uninterrupted history of settlement in their present locations since the Mesolithic. Their precursor populations would have occupied mid-eastern Europe in the last glacial maximum and in the Mesolithic would have followed the retreating ice, eventually settling in their present territories.
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  • Uralic Continuity Theory
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