Language steamrollers?

Wolfgang E. Sterrer ()
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Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6667, 547-547

Abstract: Abstract 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).

Date: 1998
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