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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Princeton :
Princeton University press
2010.
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Notice mise à jour d'après la consultation, 2022-10-17 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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| 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 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- pt. 1. Language and archaeology.
- pt. 2. The opening of the Eurasian steppes.
- 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
- 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