Indo-European Society

It is known how Indo-European society was thanks to the reconstructed vocabulary.

Here, you have a kind of summary with the main ideas of how these people were. 

- They had gods associated with the day and the sky à Nature was very important for them.

- Patriarchal, patrilineal and patrilocal society –the father was the most important figure; the male was the head of the society and women had to go to live with husband and husband´s family.

- Houses were built forming villages, which were the seat of the tribe, clan or family. In villages, the household was the social unit.

- Agricultural society, as it has been found much vocabulary related with grains, crops and farm animals.

- Wealth was measured with livestock, with cattle.

- Advanced domestic skills and tools

- Society based on the principle of reprocity – exchanges, hospitality, compensation, etc., were important. 

But, where they lived?

It seems to be that they lived all together and then each group migrated to another part of Europe, Asia and India. The problem here is to localize the PIE society geographically. As there is no archeological evidence, scholars look to all reconstructed vocabulary to establish PIE homeland. They find northerly:

- Land

- Weather

- Flora

- Fauna

But this data seems to be not conclusive as it cannot be established what type of flora, fauna or weather there was in each territory in 5 millennia ago. So, faced with many unknown variables, some scholars have despaired of being able to locate the homeland of PIE society.

Supposed spread of PIE Language.