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 / / David W. Anthony.

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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing my...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Anthony, David W.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2007
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (568 p.) :; 3 halftones. 86 line illus. 16 tables. 25 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One. Language and Archaeology
  • Chapter One. The Promise and Politics of the Mother Tongue
  • Chapter Two. How to Reconstruct a Dead Language
  • Chapter Three. Language and Time 1: The Last Speakers of Proto- Indo- European
  • Chapter Four. Language and Time 2: Wool, Wheels, and Proto- Indo- European
  • Chapter Five. Language and Place: The Location of the Proto- Indo- European Homeland
  • Chapter Six. The Archaeology of Language
  • Part Two. The Opening of the Eurasian Steppes
  • Chapter Seven. How to Reconstruct a Dead Culture
  • Chapter Eight. First Farmers and Herders: The Pontic- Caspian Neolithic
  • Chapter Nine. Cows, Copper, and Chiefs
  • Chapter Ten. The Domestication of the Horse and the Origins of Riding: The Tale of the Teeth
  • Chapter Eleven. The End of Old Eu rope and the Rise of the Steppe
  • Chapter Twelve. Seeds of Change on the Steppe Borders: Maikop Chiefs and Tripolye Towns
  • Chapter Thirteen. Wagon Dwellers of the Steppe: The Speakers of Proto- Indo- European
  • Chapter Fourteen. The Western Indo- European Languages
  • Chapter Fifteen. Chariot Warriors of the Northern Steppes
  • Chapter Sixteen. The Opening of the Eurasian Steppes
  • Chapter Seventeen. Words and Deeds
  • Appendix: Author's Note on Radiocarbon Dates
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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