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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David W Anthony |
| ISBN: | 9780691058870 0691058873 9780691148182 069114818X |
| OCLC Number: | 174129990 |
| Description: | xii, 553 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Other Titles: | How bronze-age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world |
| Responsibility: | David W. Anthony. |
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David W. Anthony argues that we speak English not just because our parents taught it to us but because wild horses used to roam the steppes of central Eurasia, because steppedwellers invented the spoked wheel and because poetry once had real power... Anthony is not the first scholar to make the case that Proto-Indo-European came from this region [Ukraine/Russia], but given the immense array of evidence he presents, he may be the last one who has to... The Horse, the Wheel, and Language brings together the work of historical linguists and archaeologists, researchers who have traditionally been suspicious of each other's methods. [The book] lays out in intricate detail the complicated genealogy of history's most successful language. -- Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review [A]uthoritative ... -- John Noble Wilford, New York Times A thorough look at the cutting edge of anthropology, Anthony's book is a fascinating look into the origins of modern man. -- Publishers Weekly In the age of Borat it may come as a surprise to learn that the grasslands between Ukraine and Kazakhstan were once regarded as an early crucible of civilisation. This idea is revisited in a major new study by David Anthony. -- Times Higher Education Starting with a history of research on Proto-Indo-Europeans and exploring how this field for obvious reasons assumed an ethno-political dimension early on, leading PIE scholar Anthony moves on to established facts ... then shifts his focus to the interrelation of the three essential elements of horse, chariot, and language and how the first and second provided the means for the spread of Indo-European languages from India to Ireland. The bulk of the book contains the factual evidence, mainly archaeological, to support this argument. But a strength of the book is its rich historical linguistic approach. The combination of the two provides a remarkable work that should appeal to everyone with an interest not just in Indo-Europeans, but in the history of humanity in general. -- Abdi, Dartmouth College, for "CHOICE David Anthony's book is a masterpiece. A professor of anthropology, Anthony brings together archaeology, linguistics, and rare knowledge of Russian scholarship and the history of climate change to recast our understanding of the formation of early human society. -- Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly The Horse, the Wheel, and Language brings together the work of historical linguists and archaeologists, researchers who have traditionally been suspicious of each other's methods. Though parts of the book will be penetrable only by scholars, it lays out in intricate detail the complicated genealogy of history's most successful language. -- Christine Kenneally, International Herald Tribune The Horse, the Wheel and Language maps the early geography of the Russian steppes to re-create the lost world of Indo-European culture that is as fascinating as any mystery novel. -- Arthur Krim, Geographical Reviews In its integration of language and archaeology, this book represents an outstanding synthesis of what today can be known with some certainty about the origin and early history of the Indo-European languages. In my view, it supersedes all previous attempts on the subject. -- Kristian Kristiansen, Antiquity Read more...
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- Proto-Indo-European language.
- Bronze age -- Eurasia.
- Horses -- Eurasia -- History.
- Animals and civilization -- Eurasia -- History.
- Bronze Age -- Eurasia.
- Archeology -- Eurasia.
- Cultuurgeschiedenis.
- Indo-europese volken.
- Proto-indo-europees.
- Bronstijd.
- Azië.
- Europa (geografie)
- Bronzezeit.
- Sprachverbreitung.
- Pferd.
- Domestikation.
- Reiternomadismus.
- Zivilisation.
- Indogermanisch.
- Eurasien.
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