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

Name: Horse, the Wheel, and Language How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780691148182

ISBN-10: 069114818X

ISBN-13: 9780691148182

Edition: 2007

Authors: 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 mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race.The Horse, the Wheel, and Languagelifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 568
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.21" long x 1.35" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English