Vīta Brevis, Wit Artefāctōrum Ætērna Podcast

TecC 25B - One Steppe for Man, Three Giant Leaps for Mankind


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I last finished by making the point that despite a great number of innovations of the peoples of the Eurasian Steppe their achievements haven’t been given the recognition they are due. I also suggested that their institutional achievements were on an even grander scale than their artefactual ones. Allow me to complete my case.

This is thus in essence the third part of a trilogy: the story of...

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Further Reading & Reference

* Anthony, David W. (2010). The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1400831104. (Complete text at archive.org)

* Fortson IV, Benjamin W. (2010). Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1405188968. (Complete text at archive.org)

* Mallory, J.P & Adams. D. Q. (2006). Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199287918.

* Watkins, Calvert. (1995). How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195085957.

* Benveniste, Émile. (2016). Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts. Hau Books. ISBN 978-0986132599.

* Parpola, Asko. (2015). The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-019022690-9.

* Reich, David. (2018). Who We Are and How We Got Here. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198821250.

* Mallory, J.P. (1989). In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archeology and Myth. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500276161 (Complete text at archive.org)

* Jamison, Stephanie W & Brereton, Joel P. (2014). The Rigveda: the earliest religious poetry of India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199370184.

* Parpola, Asko. (2005). The Nāsatyas, the Chariot and Proto-Aryan Religion. Kyoto International Community House.



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