David W. Anthony is an American anthropologist who is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Hartwick College. He specializes in

Indo-European migrations The Indo-European migrations are hypothesized migrations of Proto-Indo-Europeans, peoples who spoke Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and the derived Indo-European languages, which took place from around 4000 to 1000 BCE, ...

, and is a proponent of the

Kurgan hypothesis The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory, Kurgan model, or steppe theory) is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European homeland from which the Indo-European languages spread out throughout Europe and part ...

. Anthony is well known for his award-winning book '' The Horse, the Wheel, and Language'' (2007).

Career

Anthony received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the

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. Anthony has been a Professor of Anthropology at Hartwick College since 1987.ResearchGate: "David Anthony"
/ref> While at Hartwick, he was also the curator of Anthropology for the Yager Museum of Art & Culture on the campus of Hartwick College in

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. According to

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, "he has conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork in

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, and

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." Anthony has been Archaeology Editor of the ''

Journal of Indo-European Studies The ''Journal of Indo-European Studies'' (''JIES'') is a peer-reviewed academic journal of Indo-European studies. The journal publishes papers in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, mythology and linguistics relating to the cultural histo ...

''. One of his areas of research has been the

domestication of the horse It is not entirely clear how, when or where the domestication of the horse took place. Although horses appeared in Paleolithic cave art as early as 30,000 BCE, these were wild horses and were probably hunted for meat. The clearest evidence o ...

. In 2019, his work was featured in an episode of ''

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'' that discussed the theories of how this process occurred.

Mediated works

According to the uncurated

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website, Anthony has published at least 54 research articles.

Bibliography

The books of Anthony include: * '' The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World'' (2007) * ''The Lost World Of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 - 3500 BC'' (2009) * ''A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes: The Samara Valley Project'' (2016, co-editor)

Filmography

Anthony has appeared as a relator of history in works such as: * ''How the Silk Road Made the World'' (2019, NHNZ) * ''First Horse Warriors'' (2019, NOVA)

References

21st-century American anthropologists American male non-fiction writers American historians University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni Hartwick College faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-historian-stub

Career

Mediated works

Bibliography

Filmography

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