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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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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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PART ONE Language and Archaeology (page 1)
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Chapter One The Promise and Politics of the Mother Tongue (page 3)
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Chapter Two How to Reconstruct a Dead Language (page 21)
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Chapter Three Language and Time 1: The Last Speakers of Proto-Indo-European (page 39)
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Chapter Four Language and Time 2: Wool, Wheels, and Proto-Indo-European (page 59)
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Chapter Five Language and Place: The Location of the Proto-Indo-European Homeland (page 83)
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Chapter Six The Archaeology of Language (page 102)
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PART TWO The Opening of the Eurasian Steppes (page 121)
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Chapter Seven How to Reconstruct a Dead Culture (page 123)
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Chapter Eight First Farmers and Herders: The Pontic-Caspian Neolithic (page 134)
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Chapter Nine Cows, Copper, and Chiefs (page 160)
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Chapter Ten The Domestication of the Horse and the Origins of Riding: The Tale of the Teeth (page 193)
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Chapter Eleven The End of Old Europe and the Rise of the Steppe (page 225)
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Chapter Twelve Seeds of Change on the Steppe Borders: Maikop Chiefs and Tripolye Towns (page 263)
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Chapter Thirteen Wagon Dwellers of the Steppe: The Speakers of Proto-Indo-European (page 300)
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Chapter Fourteen The Western Indo-European Languages (page 340)
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Chapter Fifteen Chariot Warriors of the Northern Steppes (page 371)
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Chapter Sixteen The Opening of the Eurasian Steppes (page 412)
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Chapter Seventeen Words and Deeds (page 458)
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Appendix: Author's Note on Radiocarbon Dates (page 467)
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Notes (page 471)
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References (page 507)
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Index (page 547)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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WQ | 32.2 (Summer 2008): 101-102 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40262150 |
AANTH | 111.1 (Mar. 2009): 109-111 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40300795 |
RMR | 64.2 (Fall 2010): 218-220 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/29765447 |
Citable Link
Published: c2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9781400831104 (ebook)
- 9780691148182 (paper)
- 9780691058870 (hardcover)