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Language steamrollers?

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  • Wolfgang E. Sterrer

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The spread of Indo-European languages is often exclusively attributed to agricultural progress, whereas an alternative hypothesis, the domestication of the horse for warfare, tends to be ignored. Only a few years ago a good case was made for the steamrollering of undefended Old European cultures9 and languages by the first ‘armoured vehicle’, the horse10,11, whose breaking to the bit coincided with proto-Indo-European languages geographically (Ukraine) and in time (at least 4,000 BC).

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  • Wolfgang E. Sterrer, 1998. "Language steamrollers?," Nature, Nature, vol. 391(6667), pages 547-547, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:391:y:1998:i:6667:d:10.1038_35296
    DOI: 10.1038/35296
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