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Horse, wagon & chariot: Indo-European languages and archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David W. Anthony
David W. Anthony*
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Department of Anthropology, Hartwick College, Oneonta NY 13820, USA
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Abstract

New discoveries across the steppe zone of eastern Europe, and new dates relating to those discoveries, keep that oldest of archaeological puzzles, the Indo-European question, happily unanswered. A version of this paper was given at a 1994 meeting, on ‘Language, culture and biology in prehistoric central Eurasia’—its title a reminder that the biological view of Indo-European may again be a growing interest.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 264 , September 1995 , pp. 554 - 565
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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