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| The roots of Hinduism: the early Aryans and the Indus civilization A Parpola Oxford University Press, USA, 2015 | 242 | 2015 |
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| The Indus script: A challenging puzzle A Parpola World Archaeology 17 (3), 399-419, 1986 | 89 | 1986 |
| Formation of the Indo-European and Uralic (Finno-Ugric) language families in the light of archaeology: Revised and integrated ‘total’correlations A Parpola A linguistic map of prehistoric northern Europe 266, 119-184, 2012 | 86 | 2012 |
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| The formation of the Aryan branch of Indo-European A Parpola Artefacts, languages and texts 3, 180-207, 1999 | 80 | 1999 |
| The Nâsatyas, the chariot and Proto-Aryan religion A Parpola Journal of Indological Studies 16 (17), 2004, 2005 | 71 | 2005 |
| 15. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: Textual-linguistic and archaeological evidence A Parpola The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia, 353, 1995 | 55 | 1995 |
| Early Contacts Between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations: Papers Presented at an International Symposium Held at the Tvärminne Research … C Carpelan, A Parpola, P Koskikallio Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, 2001 | 54 | 2001 |
| On the formation of the Mīmāṃsā and the problems concerning Jaimini, with particular reference to the teacher quotations and the Vedic schools A Parpola Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 25, 145-177, 1981 | 54 | 1981 |
| Study of the Indus script A Parpola Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies 50, 28-66, 2005 | 51 | 2005 |
| From the dialects of Old Indo-Aryan to Proto-Indo-Aryan and Proto-Iranian A Parpola | 49 | 2002 |
| Decipherment of the Proto-Dravidian inscriptions of the Indus civilization: a 1st announcement A Parpola Special publications, 1969 | 48 | 1969 |
| The pre-Vedic Indian background of the Śrauta rituals A Parpola Agni. The Vedic ritual of the fire altar 2, 41-75, 1983 | 45 | 1983 |
| New correspondences between Harappan and Near Eastern glyptic art A Parpola Cambridge University Press, 1984 | 43 | 1984 |
| Pre-proto-Iranians of Afghanistan as initiatiors of Śākta Tantrism: On the Scythian/Saka affiliation of the Dāsas, Nuristanis and Magadhans A Parpola Iranica Antiqua 37, 233-324, 2002 | 41 | 2002 |
