The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
David W. Anthony
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
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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 chapters 10 and 16 was
the product of our joint research, published over many years. Dorcas’s
brother, Dr. Ben Brown, also helped to read and edit the ms.
The bit-wear research described in chapter 10 and the field work associated
with the Samara Valley Project (chapter 16) was supported by grants from
Hartwick College, the Freedman and Fortis Foundations, the American
Philosophical Society, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Geographic
Society, the Russian Institute of Archaeology (Moscow), the Institute
for the History and Archaeology of the Volga (Samara), and the National
Science Foundation (United States), with assistance for chapter 10 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 1999–2000 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; Şandor
Bökönyi, 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 Polomé, Richard Diebold, Winfrid
Lehmann, Alexander Lubotsky, Don Ringe, Stefan Zimmer, and Eric
Hamp. A special thanks to Johanna Nichols, who helped edit chapter 5,
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 chapter 11), 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.
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