Screen LibraryThe horse, the wheel, and language：how Bronze-Age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 553 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780691058870 (hbk.) 0691058873 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | K861 |
| CLC: | K861.3 |
| Call Number: | K861.3/A628 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-545) and index. 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 -- La Argues that the domestication of the horse and the use of the wheel by the prehistoric peoples of the central Eurasian steppe grasslands facilitated the spread of the Proto-Indo-European language across most of the ancient world. |