David Anthony et al - Indo-Europeans and the Horse

 Salvete Omnes,

 

this 2022 is about to expire today - so I will post one more entry today:

 

the Proto-Indoeuroepans and their wheeled wagons and horses and the rest is history..

 

I have discovered for myself that Dr David Anthony made his book - The Horse, the Wheel and the Language - available on Archive.
And here you can listen to dr Anthony being interviewed on the subject at hand - the origin of the Indo-Europeans.

Dr Kristian Kristiansen, archaeologist from Sweden (google scholar and Academia), who participated in this great paper - The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes- delivered a very fine lecture here - Towards a New European prehistory: genes, archaeology and language . And here dr Kristiansen gave interview on the subject - the Birth of Northern Europe.

 

And the very interesting interview with dr James Mallory - Finding the Indo-Euroepans.

My post illustrated with the pages from The Horse, the Wheel and the Language - all archaeological artefacts. 

Happy New Year

Valete

Origin and spread of horse domestication - latest DNA research

 Salvete Omnes,

and just a quick link - to the October 2021 Nature Magazine article titled:

 The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes -

 from the article's abstract: 

Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 BC.

Other longstanding candidate regions for horse domestication, such as Iberia and Anatolia6, have also recently been challenged. Thus, the genetic, geographic and temporal origins of modern domestic horses have remained unknown. Here we pinpoint the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region, as the homeland of modern domestic horses.

Furthermore, we map the population changes accompanying domestication from 273 ancient horse genomes. This reveals that modern domestic horses ultimately replaced almost all other local populations as they expanded including Sintashta spoke-wheeled chariots. We find that equestrianism involved strong selection for critical locomotor and behavioural adaptations at the GSDMC and ZFPM genes. Our results reject the commonly held association between horseback riding and the massive expansion of Yamnaya steppe pastoralists into Europe around 3000 BC.driving the spread of Indo-European languages.

This contrasts with the scenario in Asia where Indo-Iranian languages, chariots and horses spread together, following the early second millennium BC Sintashta culture.

 

 

 

Valete

Dr Anthony - Indo-Europeans and horses

Salvete omnes,
finally I got his book - The Secrets of Silk Road -edited by dr Victor Mair with articles by various scholars, including dr David Anthony, whose book on the horse domestication and Indo-Europeans I also have. In May 2012 I provided some links to the video lectures made available by Penn Museum, from their symposium on the Silk Road. The links in my 2012 post are still good and all lectures are still available.

So I did a little sweep of youtube for interesting lectures and in therms of the Bronze Age and horse domestication some of the lectures and discussion involving dr David Anthony (who represents the research done by his wife Dorcas Brown and he).
from 2012 - Roots of Europe - Language, Culture, and Migrations, University of Copenhagen, 12-14 December 2012:
Early Indo-European migrations, economies, and phylogenies
Wheeled vehicles, horses, and Indo-European origins
and the discussion - Tracing the Indo-Europeans: Origin and migration.

also, Dr Anthony's page on academia- great stuff like this article on the warbands and ritualised canine consumption.enjoy