Uralic Continuity Theory

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the Uralic Continuity Theory is a theory about the Uralic languages developed by a group of archaeologists and linguists^[who?] 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.^{[clarification needed]}

Mario Alinei has built on this theory for the purposes of his "Paleolithic Continuity Theory" of Indo-European origins.

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• Nunez M, 1987. A Model for the Early Settlement of Finland. Fennoscandia Archaeologica 4, pp 3-18.
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• Alinei M., 2001 Continuity from Paleolithic of Indo-European and Uralic Populations in Europe: the convergence of linguistic and archaeological frontiers" in "Proceedings of the UISSP", Leige 2001. BAR International Series.
• Alinei M, 2003. "Towards a Generalised Continuity Model for Uralic and Indo-European Languages" in "The Roots of Peoples and Languages of Northern Eurasia", edited by Kyosti Julku.