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Roughly half the worlds 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 mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasias steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warriors chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange. He explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social change. Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding.The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the Indo-European languages and English--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.

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THE
HORSE
THE
WHEEL
AND
LANGUAGE

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HOW
BRONZE-AGE RIDERS
FROM THE
EURASIAN STEPPES
SHAPED THE
MODERN WORLD

DAVID W. ANTHONY
Princeton University Press
Princeton and oxford

Copyright 2007 by Princeton University Press

Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock,
Oxfordshire OX20 1SY

All Rights Reserved

ISBN-13: 978-0-691-05887-0

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007932082

British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available

This book has been composed in Adobe Caslon

Printed on acid-free paper

press.princeton.edu

Printed in the United States of America

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CONTENTS
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PART ONE
Language and Archaeology

Chapter One
The Promise and Politics of the Mother Tongue

Chapter Two
How to Reconstruct a Dead Language

Chapter Three
Language and Time 1:
The Last Speakers of Proto-Indo-European

The Size of the Chronological Window:
How Long Do Languages Last?

The Terminal Date for Proto-Indo-European:
The Mother Becomes Her Daughters

The Oldest and Strangest Daughter (or Cousin?):
Anatolian

Chapter Four
Language and Time 2:
Wool, Wheels, and Proto-Indo-European

Chapter Five
Language and Place:
The Location of the Proto-Indo-European Homeland

Chapter Six
The Archaeology of Language

PART TWO
The Opening of the Eurasian Steppes

Chapter Seven
How to Reconstruct a Dead Culture

Chapter Eight
First Farmers and Herders: The Pontic-Caspian Neolithic

Chapter Nine
Cows, Copper, and Chiefs

Chapter Ten
The Domestication of the Horse and the Origins of Riding: The Tale of the Teeth

Chapter Eleven
The End of Old Europe and the Rise of the Steppe

Warfare and Alliance:
The Cucuteni-Tripolye Culture and the Steppes

Chapter Twelve
Seeds of Change on the Steppe Borders: Maikop Chiefs and Tripolye Towns

Chapter Thirteen
Wagon Dwellers of the Steppe: The Speakers of Proto-Indo-European

Chapter Fourteen
The Western Indo-European Languages

Chapter Fifteen
Chariot Warriors of the Northern Steppes

Chapter Sixteen
The Opening of the Eurasian Steppes

Chapter Seventeen
Words and Deeds

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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This book would not have been written without the love and support of my mother and father, David F. and Laura B. Anthony. Laura B. Anthony read and commented on every chapter. Bernard Wailes drew me into the University of Pennsylvania, led me into my first archaeological excavation, and taught me to respect the facts of archaeology. I am blessed with Dorcas Brown as my partner, editor, critic, fellow archaeologist, field excavation co-director, lab director, illustrator, spouse, and best friend through thick and thin. She edited every chapter multiple times. All the maps and figures are by D. Brown. Much of the content in was the product of our joint research, published over many years. Dorcass brother, Dr. Ben Brown, also helped to read and edit the ms.

The bit-wear research described in from the State University of New York at Cobleskill. We are particularly grateful to the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Support to write this book was provided by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 19992000 and a membership in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton, New Jersey, in 2006, where Nicola DiCosmo and Patricia Crone made us welcome. The term at the IAS was crucial.

People who have helped me in numerous different ways include:

Near East and East Asia: Kathy Linduff, Victor Mair, Oscar Muscarella, Karen Rubinson, Chris Thornton, Lauren Zych, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Fred Hiebert, Phil Kohl, Greg Possehl, Glenn Schwartz, David Owen, Mitchell Rothman, Emmy Bunker, Nicola DiCosmo, and Peter Golden.

Horses and wheeled vehicles: Dexter Perkins and Pat Daly; andor Bknyi, Sandra Olsen, Mary Littauer and Joost Crouwel (my instructors in ancient transport); and Peter Raulwing, Norbert Benecke, and Mindy Zeder.

Bit wear and the riding experiment: Mindy Zeder, Ron Keiper; the Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada; Cornell University Veterinary School; University of Pennsylvania New Bolton Center; the Assateague Island Wildlife Refuge; and, at the State University of New York at Cobleskill, Steve MacKenzie, Stephanie Skargensky, and Michelle Beyea.

Linguistics: Ward Goodenough, Edgar Polom, Richard Diebold, Winfrid Lehmann, Alexander Lubotsky, Don Ringe, Stefan Zimmer, and Eric Hamp. A special thanks to Johanna Nichols, who helped edit , and J. Bill Darden and Jim Mallory, who reviewed the first draft.

Eastern European archaeology: Petar Glumac (who made me believe I could read Russian-language sources), Peter Bogucki, Douglass Bailey (who reviewed ), Ruth Tringham (who gave me my first field experience in Eastern Europe), Victor Shnirelman (our first guide in Russia), Dimitri Telegin (my first source on steppe archaeology), Natalya Belan, Oleg Zhuravlev, Yuri Rassamakin, Mikhail Videiko, Igor Vasiliev, Pavel Kuznetsov, Oleg Mochalov, Aleksandr Khokhlov, Pavel Kosintsev, Elena Kuzmina, Sergei Korenevskii, Evgeni Chernykh, R. Munchaev, Nikolai Vinogradov, Victor Zaibert, Stanislav Grigoriev, Andrei Epimakhov, Valentin Dergachev, and Ludmila Koryakova. Of these I owe the deepest debts to Telegin (my first guide) and my colleagues in Samara: Vasiliev, Kuznetsov, Mochalov, Khokhlov, and (honorary Samaran) Kosintsev.

The errors I have made are mine alone; these people tried their best.

PART ONE
Language and Archaeology C HAPTER O NE The Promise and Politics of the - photo 4
Language and Archaeology
C HAPTER O NE
The Promise and Politics of the Mother Tongue A NCESTORS When you look in the - photo 5
The Promise and Politics of the Mother Tongue
A NCESTORS

When you look in the mirror you see not just your face but a museum. Although your face, in one sense, is your own, it is composed of a collage of features you have inherited from your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. The lips and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but are also features of your ancestors, long dead perhaps as individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you. Even complex qualities such as your sense of balance, musical abilities, shyness in crowds, or susceptibility to sickness have been lived before. We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just in our bodies. It lives also in our customs, including the way we speak. The past is a set of invisible lenses we wear constantly, and through these we perceive the world and the world perceives us. We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, whether or not we look down to acknowledge them.

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