Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contributors -- Funding and support -- Abbreviations -- Orthographic conventions for Caucasian languages -- Overview of conventions -- Overview of tables -- Overview of figures -- Overview of maps -- Overview of appendices -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical backdrop: words, things, and humans in their environment -- 3. Language: classification, reconstruction, and principles of change -- 4. Description of the database Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics -- 5. Atlas: Grammar -- 6. Atlas: Lexicon -- 7. Concluding chapter: an integrated view of the linguistic and cultural histories of Eurasia -- Literature -- Appendix 1: Languages of the current atlas -- Appendix 2a: Grammar: Features, complete list (from DiACL) -- Appendix 2b: Grammar: State combinations -- Appendix 2c: Grammar: State combinations in languages -- Appendix 2d: Grammar: Solutions 1-10 by Structure -- Appendix 3a: Lexicon: list of concepts, coverage by family -- Appendix 3b: Lexical data -- Appendix 3c: Lexical data: statistics -- Appendix 3d: Lexicon: Source language data, flow map -- Appendix 4a: Language consultants -- Appendix 4b: Literary sources -- Appendix 4c: Geographical sources -- Map Credits -- Index