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The Horse, The Wheel, And Language : How Bronze-Age Riders From The Eurasian Steppes Shaped The Modern World

  • The Horse, The Wheel, And Language : How Bronze-Age Riders From The Eurasian Steppes Shaped The Modern World

  • Attribution

    David W. Anthony

  • Publication Details

    Book, Princeton University Press, 2007

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  • Description

    The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia’s steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior’s chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • Argues that the domestication of the horse and the use of the wheel by the prehistoric peoples of the central Eurasian steppe grasslands facilitated the spread of the Proto-Indo-European language across most of the ancient world

  • Contents

    • pt. 1. Language and archaeology.
    • The promise and politics of the mother tongue
    • How to reconstruct a dead language
    • Language and time 1: the last speakers of Proto-Indo-European
    • Language and time 2 : wool, wheels, and Proto-Indo-European
    • Language and place : the location of the Proto-Indo-European homeland
    • The archaeology of language
    • pt. 2. The opening of the Eurasian steppes.
    • How to reconstruct a dead culture
    • First farmers and herders : the Pontic-Caspian Neolithic - - Cows, copper, and chiefs
    • The domestication of the horse and the origins of riding : the tale of the teeth
    • The end of Old Europe and the rise of the steppe
    • Seeds of change on the steppe borders : Maikop chiefs and Tripolye towns
    • Wagon dwellers of the steppe : the speakers of Proto-Indo-European
    • The western Indo- European languages
    • Chariot warriors of the northern steppes
    • The opening of the Eurasian steppes
    • Words and deeds

  • ISBN

    • 9780691058870
    • 0691058873

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