Laurie’s Reviews > The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World > Status Update

Reading HWL is work. It's a bit like being in childbirth; painful level of details to wade through at times along with the beauty of progressing towards a greater level of understanding of such a bedrock event in European history. Anthony doesn't spend much time discussing the "influence" as stated in his subtitle. He's intent upon proving his thesis which he is doing marvelously.

Anthony moves into his area of expertise, archaeology, so be prepared to analyze the grave goods of several cultures along the frontier of Neolithic Southern Europe and the Pontic Caspian steppe. The author really comes into his own here even going so far as to develop a method for the analysis of horse teeth as a means to determine whether or not horse remains found in graves were domesticated or wild.