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01834cam a2200181 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780691058870 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Anthony, David W. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The horse, the wheel, and language : how bronze-age riders from the eurasian steppes shaped the modern world [electronic resources] / |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Princeton, New Jersey : |
| Name of publisher |
Princeton University Press, |
| Year of publication |
c2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
one online resource (xii, 553 pages) : |
| Other physical details |
illustratiions |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Proto-Indo-European language. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Bronze age--Eurasia. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Horses--Eurasia--History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Animals and civilization--Eurasia--History. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Electronic Books |
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