The earliest wheel finds : their archaeology and Indo-European terminology in time and space, and early migrations around the Caucasus / Hans J. J. G. Holm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holm, Hans J. J. G., author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Archaeolingua. Series minor ; 43.

Archaeolingua. Series minor ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wheels--History--To 1500.

Wheels.

History.

Caucasus--Antiquities.

Caucasus.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

148 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Archaeolingua Alapítvány, 2019.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

2. The archaeological attestations

times, types, and topology

2.1. Evidence

categories and their symbols

2.2. Types of oldest wheel constructions

2.3. The scatter of the datings

2.4. Some representative finds in chronological order

3. Wheels, wains, and words

3.1. Palaeolinguistics

3.2. The attestations for `wheel' terms detailed

Fig. 3

3.2.1. Based on the verbal root PIE *KW elh1- `to move, become, lead, bend, revolve'

3.2.2. The verbal root PIE *dhregh `to drag'

3.2.3. The verbal root PIE *ret- `to run'

3.2.4. The noun PIE *h3nebh- `navel' > *h3nebh- [≥] Old Arm. wuhi. - `hub'

3.2.5. The verbal root PIE *h2werg- `to turn'

3.3. Criticism of palaeolinguistics

4. Computed Indo-European dispersal

4.1. Criticism

4.2. Computed histories of PIE dispersal

4.2.1. Lexicostatistical approaches

4.2.2. Glottochronological (GC) approaches

5. Combining archaeology, linguistics, and glottochronology

5.1. The first split

5.2. The second partition in time

5.3. Partitions after 3500 BC

6. The wheel finds and two debated questions

6.1. The segregation of the later IE Anatolians and Tocharians

6.1.1. The route around the western Black Sea

6.1.2. The route around or across the Caucasus

Undivided state of Pre-Anatolo-Tocharians

Contacts with the South

Dispersal south of the Caucasus c. 2950 BC

First wheel finds around the Caucasus

Innovated wheel terms

6.2. The development of wheeled transport in general

7. Conclusion and outlook

Acknowledgements

8. References to the main text

9. Finds Table: Representative Eurasian wheel finds in the fifth to third millennia BCE

How to read the table.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9786155766305

6155766304

OCLC:

1195922479

Publisher Number:

99986465011