The horse, the wheel, and language : how Bronze-Age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world
| 1. Verfasser: |
Anthony, David W.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xii, 553 p. : ill., tabl., diagr., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Schlagworte: |
Linguistik
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| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Eurasische Steppe Europa |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- I. Language and archaeology
- The promise and politics of the mother tongue
- How to reconstruct a dead language
- Language and time 1: the last speakers of Proto-Indo-European
- Language and time 2: wool, wheels, and Proto-Indo-European
- Language and place: The location of the Proto-Indo-European homeland
- The archaeology of language
- II. The opening of the Eurasian Steppes
- How to reconstruct a dead culture
- First farmers and herders: the Pontic-Caspian Neolithic
- Cows, copper, and chiefs
- The domestication of the horse and the origins of riding: the tale of the teeth
- The end of old Europe and the rise of the Steppe
- Seeds of change on the Steppe borders: Maikop chiefs and Tripolye towns
- Wagon dwellers of the Steppe: the speakers of Proto-Indo-European
- The Western Indo-European languages
- Chariot warriors of the Northern Steppes
- The opening of the Eurasian Steppes
- Words and deeds.
