The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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Combining archaeology, linguistics, and anthropology, this groundbreaking study investigates the origins of the Indo-European languages and the prehistoric communities that first spoke Proto-Indo-European. It traces how innovations including horse domestication, wheeled transport, metallurgy, and chariot warfare enabled Bronze Age peoples of the Eurasian steppes to expand networks of migration, trade, and cultural exchange across a vast region. Drawing on archaeological evidence and the revealing marks left on ancient horse teeth, the book reconstructs a dynamic society whose technologies and institutions helped reshape the course of Eurasian history. Both scholarly and vividly accessible, it offers a compelling account of how language, mobility, and innovation transformed the ancient world.
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hardcover
Princeton University Press
Published Nov 19, 2007
566 pages
ISBN: 9780691058870
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First Published
2007
Language
eng
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