The Horse, the Wheel, and Language - How Bronze age Riders from Eurasian Steppes Shaped Modern World

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor David W. Anthony is professor emeritus of anthropology at Hartwick College and the editor of The Lost World of Old Europe (Princeton). He has conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork in Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Klappentext "If you want to learn about the early origins of English and related languages, and of many of our familiar customs such as feasting on holidays and exchanging gifts, this book provides a lively and richly informed introduction. Along the way you will learn when and why horses were domesticated, when people first rode horseback, and when and why swift chariots changed the nature of warfare." --Peter S. Wells, author of The Battle that Stopped Rome "A very significant contribution to the field. This book attempts to resolve the longstanding problem of Indo-European origins by providing an examination of the most relevant linguistic issues and a thorough review of the archaeological evidence. I know of no study of the Indo-European homeland that competes with it." --J. P. Mallory, Queen's University, Belfast Zusammenfassung 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? This title reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language. Inhaltsverzeichnis 13018196

Product details

• Authors: David W. Anthony, Anthony David W.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2010
• EAN: 9780691148182
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14818-2
• No. of pages: 568
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Princeton University Press; Princeton University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book; prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, Indo-European languages, Historical and comparative linguistics