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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000327589707536

Autore

Anthony, David W.

Titolo

The horse, the wheel, and language : how Bronze-Age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world / David W. Anthony

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007

ISBN

9780691058870

0691058873

Descrizione fisica

XII, 553 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Soggetti

Età del bronzo - Eurasia

Cavalli - Eurasia - Storia

Animali - Eurasia - Storia

Popoli preistorici - Eurasia

Scavi archeologici - Eurasia

Eurasia Antichità

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Contiene bibliografia: pp. [507]-545

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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.