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The Proto-Indo-Europeans are a hypothetical prehistoric population of Eurasia who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE),the ancestor of the Indo-European languages according to linguistic reconstruction.
A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer,usually using horses to provide rapid motive power. The oldest known chariots have been found in burials of the Sintashta culture in modern-day Chelyabinsk Oblast,Russia,dated to c. 1950–1880 BCE and are depicted on cylinder seals from Central Anatolia in Kültepe dated to c. 1900 BCE. The critical invention that allowed the construction of light,horse-drawn chariots was the spoked wheel.
How and when horses became domesticated has been disputed. Although horses appeared in Paleolithic cave art as early as 30,000 BCE,these were wild horses and were probably hunted for meat. The clearest evidence of early use of the horse as a means of transport is from chariot burials dated c. 2000 BCE. However,an increasing amount of evidence began to support the hypothesis that horses were domesticated in the Eurasian Steppes in approximately 3500 BCE. Discoveries in the context of the Botai culture had suggested that Botai settlements in the Akmola Province of Kazakhstan are the location of the earliest domestication of the horse. Warmouth et al. (2012) pointed to horses having been domesticated around 3000 BC in what is now Ukraine and Western Kazakhstan.
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Proto-Indo-European society is the reconstructed culture of Proto-Indo-Europeans,the ancient speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language,ancestor of all modern Indo-European languages.
The Kurgan hypothesis is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European homeland from which the Indo-European languages spread out throughout Europe and parts of Asia. It postulates that the people of a Kurgan culture in the Pontic steppe north of the Black Sea were the most likely speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). The term is derived from the Turkic word kurgan (курга́н),meaning tumulus or burial mound.
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The Horse,the Wheel,and Language:How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World is a 2007 book by the anthropologist David W. Anthony,in which the author describes his "revised Kurgan theory." He explores the origins and spread of the Indo-European languages from the Pontic–Caspian steppe throughout Western Europe,Central Asia,and South Asia. He shows how the domesticated horse and the invention of the wheel mobilized the steppe herding societies in the Eurasian Steppe,and combined with the introduction of bronze technology and new social structures of patron-client relationships gave an advantage to the Indo-European societies. The book won the Society for American Archaeology's 2010 Book Award.
The Sintashta culture is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological culture of the Southern Urals,dated to the period c. 2200–1750 BCE. It is the first phase of the Sintashta–Petrovka complex,c. 2200–1750 BCE. The culture is named after the Sintashta archaeological site,in Chelyabinsk Oblast,Russia,and spreads through Orenburg Oblast,Bashkortostan,and Northern Kazakhstan. The Sintashta culture is thought to represent an eastward migration of peoples from the Corded Ware culture. It is widely regarded as the origin of the Indo-Iranian languages,whose speakers originally referred to themselves as the Arya. The earliest known chariots have been found in Sintashta burials,and the culture is considered a strong candidate for the origin of the technology,which spread throughout the Old World and played an important role in ancient warfare. Sintashta settlements are also remarkable for the intensity of copper mining and bronze metallurgy carried out there,which is unusual for a steppe culture. Among the main features of the Sintashta culture are high levels of militarism and extensive fortified settlements,of which 23 are known.
The Indo-European migrations were hypothesized migrations of Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) speakers,and subsequent migrations of people speaking derived Indo-European languages,which took place approx. 4000 to 1000 BCE,potentially explaining how these languages came to be spoken across a large area of Eurasia,spanning from the Indian subcontinent and Iranian plateau to Atlantic Europe.
The Repin culture was a 4th millennium BCE Eneolithic archaeological culture located in the Pontic–Caspian steppe and East European forest steppe. It developed from preceding local Neolithic cultures,and later developed into the Yamnaya culture. The economy was based on pastoralism,supplemented by hunting. This culture is sometimes classified as an earlier phase of the Yamnaya culture.
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- 1 2 ResearchGate: "David Anthony"
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- ↑ "Journal of Indo-European Studies". Archived from the original on January 1, 2020. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
- ↑ Dance, Amber (4 May 2022). "The tale of the domesticated horse". Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-050422-1 . Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ↑ "NOVA: First Horse Warriors". www.pbs.org. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
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