Don Quixote against the Indo-Europeans

John Paul Demoule, archaeologist and "official" historian of European prehistory (professor at the Sorbonne) pursues his strange ideological work by committing a book in which he explains that the Indo-Europeans have never existed and that the concept itself is an ideological construction of colonial and racist Europe. Strange, because if abuses did exist and have been well documented (as in many other scientific areas that matter), the concept of "Indo-European" is not challenged by the majority of international researchers : the restitution by extremely fine procedures and continuously improved, a proto-language from which are derived by a process of ordinary evolution, the major part of European languages ​​(Latin, Greek , Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, etc.) and part of the languages ​​of Asia (Iran, Sanskrit, etc.). If there was a language, there was also people to talk. If there were people, there was a culture.

The language part of his book is extraordinarily low and even heartbreaking, knowing that she has a university. Remember that Demoule was the initiator in the 90s, a smear campaign against Georges Dumézil just after his death (courageously), explaining that he was a Nazi. The sociologist Didier Eribon blew it all to pieces in a remarkable book "Should we burn Dumézil?" (Flammarion 1992): "The archaeologist takes Demoule controversy that has long engaged against the idea would have existed a language and archaic Indo-European civilization. That is his right. But as part of his demonstration, he continues to play the political hint to strengthen its scientific arguments. To overcome the Indo-European hypothesis Demoule trying to discredit politically [...] John Paul Demoule seriously believe he will overcome all prehistorians linguists, archaeologists and mythologists who reject his point view? [...] Because the views of Dumézil on the fact that there existed an Indo-European language and culture are widely shared by the scientific community "(p. 51). The major research centers of the Indo-European civilization are located today at Harvard, UCLA (Los Angeles), University of Copenhagen, Leiden, Prague and Moscow. The French player will know nothing. John Paul Demoule is never mentioned in their publications. The reader who doubts can follow a series of video lectures at the University of Copenhagen in 2012 by leading specialists archaeologists of the question (Jim Mallory, David Anthony, K. Kristiansen): [...] ( Good knowledge of English required).

It is not there a scientific book but an ideologue who fights against windmills to wind and which unfortunately teaches. It is notable that, just out, his book was immediately made the cover of the mainstream media established: Liberation and France-Culture. Poverty of the French University!