Title:
The horse, the wheel, and language : how Bronze-Age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world / David W. Anthony.
ISBN:
9780691058870
9780691148182
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]
©2007
Physical Description:
xii, 553 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
I: 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 -- II: 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.
Summary:
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 throughout civilization.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn174129990
Availability:
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