"In his The Horse the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes shaped the Modern World, published in 2007, Anthony presented at length a demilitarized version of the Kurgan theory. Although on its central thesis we are in plain disagreement, I find Anthony’s book lively, imaginative and on many points very helpful. Especially valuable is his survey and synthesis of what Soviet and Russian archaeologists have discovered about the Neolithic and Bronze Age steppe. It will be obvious how much I am indebted to his work, and I regret that this chapter must focus on what I find wrong with it."
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