The horse, the wheel, and language : how Bronze-Age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world
題名:
The horse, the wheel, and language : how Bronze-Age riders from the Eurasian steppes shaped the modern world
作者:
Anthony, David W
ISBN（國際標準書號）:
9781400831104
9780691058870
9780691148182
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出版資訊:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007
稽核項:
xii, 553 p. : ill., maps
內容:
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
摘要:
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
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書目索引附錄等註:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-545) and index
登入號(微縮資料號):
npmlib 10602175 P572 A555 ysh