Antonomasia’s Reviews > The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World > Status Update
Antonomasia
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Sintashta culture a) appear to have invented the chariot, not near eastern civs as previously thought, b) appear to be the Indo Iranian homeland - incredible correspondences btwn evidence in burial mounds and description of funeral rituals in Rig Veda.
[I find it far more amazing to have invented spoked wheels as faster rather than wheels in the first place as there are round rolling things obvious in nature]
— May 22, 2022 09:09AM
[I find it far more amazing to have invented spoked wheels as faster rather than wheels in the first place as there are round rolling things obvious in nature]
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Antonomasia
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Finished 23/05. Still need to add some notes in here.
— May 24, 2022 03:20AM
Antonomasia
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The angled slot may have been for a noseband attached to the reins that would pull down on the inside (left) horse’s nose, acting as a brake, when the reins were pulled, while the outside (right) horse was allowed to run free—just what a left-turning racing team would need. The chariot race, as described in the Rig Veda, was a frequent metaphor for life’s challenges, and Vedic races turned to the left.
— May 22, 2022 09:07AM
Antonomasia
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Bows this long could be fired from horseback only to the side (the left side, for a right-handed archer) [though it sounds like javelins were more common in steppe warfare at this stage ... different kinds of wear are often found together, as if the right and left sides of the horse, or the right and left horses, needed slightly different kinds of control
— May 22, 2022 09:04AM
Antonomasia
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Similarly, during the climatic crisis of the late MBA in the steppes, competing steppe chiefs searching for new sources of prestige valuables probably discovered the merchants of Sarazm in the Zeravshan valley, the northernmost outpost of Central Asian civilization.
— May 22, 2022 07:35AM
Antonomasia
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Vehik found that long-distance trade increased greatly at the same time; trade after 1350 CE was more than forty times greater than it had been before then. To succeed in war, chiefs needed wealth to fund alliance-building ceremonies before the conflict and to reward allies afterward.
— May 22, 2022 07:35AM
Antonomasia
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Susan Vehik studied political change in the deserts and grasslands of the North American Southwest after 1200 CE, during a period of increased aridity and climatic volatility comparable to the early Sintashta era in the steppes. Warfare increased sharply during this climatic downturn in the Southwest.
— May 22, 2022 07:34AM
Antonomasia
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The same borrowed *arya- root developed into words with the meaning “slave” in the Finnish and Permic branches (Finnish, Komi, and Udmurt), a hint of ancient hostility between the speakers of Proto-Indo-Iranian and Finno-Ugric
— May 22, 2022 07:33AM
Antonomasia
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Proto-Indo-Iranian *arya-, the self designation “Aryan,” was borrowed into Pre-Saami as *orja-, the root of *oarji, meaning “southwest,” and of ārjel, meaning “southerner,” confirming that the Proto-Aryan world lay south of the early Uralic region.
— May 22, 2022 07:32AM
Antonomasia
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Proto-Indo-Iranian words that were borrowed into common Finno-Ugric included Proto-I-I *asura- ‘lord, god’ > F-U *asera; Proto-I-I *medhu- ‘honey’ > F-U *mete; Proto-I-I *cekro- ‘wheel’ > F-U *kekrä; and Proto-I-I *arya- ‘Aryan’ > F-U *orya.
— May 22, 2022 07:32AM
Antonomasia
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Linguists have identified loans that were adopted into the early Finno-Ugric (F-U) languages from Pre-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-Iranian (Proto-I-I). Archaeological evidence for Volosovo-Abashevo contacts around the southern Urals probably were the medium through which these loans occurred.
— May 22, 2022 07:31AM
