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| Publisher | Taylor And Francis Ltd |
| ISBN 13 | 9780367886004 |
| Book Description | 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 coasts 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. |
| Editorial Review | Cet ouvrage fournit un « modèle » pour comprendre l'histoire de la guerre européenne, avec ses armes et ses premières batailles, un champ de recherches trop souvent écarté pour des raisons idéologiques déplacées (pp. 56-57), ou simplement pour des raisons de mode. Quant à l'articulation de cette histoire avec la linguistique historique indo-européenne, beaucoup reste à faire, comme l'auteur l'admet in fine. Toutefois, son ouvrage fournit des perspectives qui respectent pour l'essentiel le travail des linguistes et qui, enrichies d'études anthropologiques et archéologiques plus larges, leur permettront d'affiner leurs propres hypothèses. - Reviewed by Pierre Sauzeau, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, BMCR |
| About the Author | Robert Drews studied ancient history-Near Eastern, Greek and Roman-at the Johns Hopkins University and received his degree in 1960. For the next 45 years he taught the full slate of ancient history at Vanderbilt University, and became interested especially in the evolution of religion and of warfare. In the latter field his publications include Coming of the Greeks (1988), The End of the Bronze Age (1993) and Early Riders: The Beginnings of Mounted Warfare in Asia and Europe (2004). |
| Language | English |
| Author | Robert Drews |
| Publication Date | 14 Dec 2019 |
| Number of Pages | 296 |
Militarism And The Indo-Europeanizing Of Europe paperback english - 14 Dec 2019
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