![]() This contrasted sharply with other moments, when I could hardly even comprehend the words that were written down because the ideas and methodologies were so complex and convoluted. Happily, though, I often enough found The Horse, the Wheel, and Language to be engaging and intelligent, sometimes poignant, and sometimes so thrilling that I couldn't bear to put it down. ![]() My first impression about this book was that it was going to be way over my head, filled as it was with excavation grid drawings, radiocarbon date tables, and words in a language that was never written down and no longer exists. David Anthony guides the reader through thousands of years of archaeology and cultural development, several different scientific disciplines, and a sometimes incomprehensible comparison of pottery styles to tell the story of the Indo-European speaking people and the language they bequeathed to much of the modern world. ![]() My journey through this book, not unlike the prehistoric Eurasian steppe cultures' journey south to the Mesopotamian world, was long, fascinating, and sometimes laborious. ![]()
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