The Horse, the Wheel, and Language : How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)

from Shrike58

Weaving together linguistics, archaeology, and other social sciences, Anthony gives you the state of play in our current understanding of the Indo-European efflorescence that came out of the transition between the tail-end of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age proper. While it's still largely a mat...

from Garp83

The Horse, The Wheel, and Language, by David Anthony, is an outstanding work of history, archaeology, linguistics and overall scholarship. Anthony argues that it was indeed Indo-European Bronze Age chariot riders from the steppes who "invaded" (actually he suggests a gradual, transitional displac...

from pbjwelch

Educated in an era when the Tigris-Euphrates "Fertile Crescent") region was credited with the invention of the chariot, this work's most fascinating contribution to our understanding of world history to me was the identification of the Pontic-Caspian steppes as the origin of horse-riding about 42...

from TeaTimeCoder

Despite not having any interest in archeology I found this fascinating and am deeply impressed by the ingenuity of research that allows us to learn something about cultures we have so little tangible evidence of.

from fist

In short, this is the prequel to Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (to which the author refers in the text and in the title trifecta). Maybe this book is a bit more technical in its archeological descriptions, and less forceful in formulating a central thesis, but I found it just as fascinat...