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The Indo-European problem can be solved today because archaeological discoveries and advances in linguistics have eaten away at problems that remained insoluble as recently as fifteen years ago. The lifting of the Iron Curtain after 1991 made the results of steppe research more easily available to Western scholars and created new cooperative
... See moreDavid W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
We find tools, like the arrowheads that I collected as a boy on my grandparents’ Georgia farm. We find charred circles where our forebears harnessed fire. We find domesticated animals—the skulls of two dogs found in central Russia in 2003 are roughly contemporary with the cave art of Europe. We find toys. And we find tombs.
Tish Harrison Warren • Culture Making
The stories of oral societies aren’t myths, they’re records | Aeon Essays
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Alice Roberts • The Celts: Search for a Civilization
no source, library, or archive is a neutral record of history.
Zachary Schrag • The Princeton Guide to Historical Research (Skills for Scholars)
However, the conceptualization and larger implications of foregrounding circulatory histories over linear and bounded national or civilizational histories are yet to be elaborated, and my early chapters represent a preliminary effort in this direction.