Jean-Paul Demoule's 'Mais où sont passés les Indo-Européens?' Reviewed in artpress

The May 2015 issue of artpress (n°422, pp. 74-75) features a review of Jean-Paul Demoule's book 'Mais où sont passés les Indo-Européens?' published by Seuil in its 'La Librairie du 21e siècle' collection. The review, titled 'LA CHUTE DE LA MAISON INDO-EUROPÉENNE déconstruction d’un mythe', critically examines Demoule's deconstruction of the Indo-European myth. Demoule challenges the traditional narrative of a nomadic tribe with rudimentary material culture but strong political institutions that spread across Europe and Asia around the first millennium BCE. The review highlights Demoule's argument that the Indo-European hypothesis is a modern construct rather than a historical reality.