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The coming of the Greeks: Indo-European conquests in the Aegean and the Near East
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ISBN: 069103592X 9780691035925 0691029512 0691186588 Year: 1989 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press


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The Greek accounts of eastern history
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ISBN: 0674362152 Year: 1973 Publisher: Cambridge (MA) : Harvard University Press,

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Basileus: the evidence for kingship in geometric Greece
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ISBN: 0300028318 9780300028317 Year: 1983 Volume: 4 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

Early riders : the beginnings of mounted warfare in Asia and Europe
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ISBN: 1134340737 1280256125 9786610256129 0203071077 9780203071076 9780415326247 0415326249 0415326249 9781134340682 9781134340729 9781134340736 9780415486804 1134340729 0415486807 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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In this wide-ranging and often controversial book, Robert Drews examines the question of the origins of man's relations with the horse. He questions the belief that on the Eurasian steppes men were riding in battle as early as 4000 BC, and suggests that it was not until around 900 BC that men anywhere - whether in the Near East and the Aegean or on the steppes of Asia - were proficient enough to handle a bow, sword or spear while on horseback. After establishing when, where, and most importantly why good riding began, Drews goes on to show how riding raiders terrorized the civilized

Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite language family
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ISBN: 0941694771 Year: 2001 Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : Institute for the study of man,

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Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe
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ISBN: 9781138282728 Year: 2017 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"This book argues that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe essentially began shortly before 1600 BC, when lands rich in natural resources were taken over by military forces from the Eurasian steppe and from southern Caucasia. First were the copper and silver mines (along with good harbors) in Greece, and the copper and gold mines of the Carpathian basin. By ca. 1500 BC other military men had taken over the amber shores of Scandinavia and the metalworking district of the southern Alps. These military takeovers offer the most likely explanations for the origins of the Greek, Keltic, Germanic and Italic subgroups of the Indo-European language family. Battlefield warfare and militarism, Robert Drews contends, were novelties ca. 1600 BC and were a consequence of the military employment of chariots. Current opinion is that militarism and battlefield warfare are as old as formal states, going back before 3000 BC. Another current opinion is that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe happened long before 1600 BC. The 'Kurgan Theory' of Marija Gimbutas and David Anthony dates it from late in the fifth to early in the third millennium BC and explains it as the result of horse-riding conquerors or raiders coming to Europe from the steppe. Colin Renfrew's Archaeology and Language dates the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe to the seventh and sixth millennia BC, and explains it as a consequence of the spread of agriculture in a 'wave of advance' from Anatolia through Europe. Pairing linguistic with archaeological evidence Drews concludes that in Greece and Italy, at least, no Indo-European language could have arrived before the second millennium BC"--Provided by publisher.


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Year: 1973 Publisher: Washington Center for Hellenic studies

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The Coming of the Greeks
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ISBN: 9780691186580 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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