THE HORSE, THE WHEEL, AND LANGUAGE: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did it spread worldwide? Discover how the domestication of horses and the use of the wheel disseminated language and transformed civilization. Illus.