The horse, the wheel, and language : how bronze-age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world

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 my...

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Hlavní autor: Anthony, David W.
Médium: Livre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Princeton : Princeton University press 2010.
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Edition sous un autre format:• The horse, the wheel, and language, how bronze-age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world, David W. Anthony, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2007, 1 vol. (XII-553 p.), 978-0-691-05887-0
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Shrnutí: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 Language lifts 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 transfor
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Titre provenant de la page de titre du document numérisé
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 566 p.
Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Histoire
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Bibliografie:Références bibliographiques. Index
ISBN:9781400831104
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