Horses, Chariots and Indo-Europeans: Foundations and Methods of Chariotry Research from the Viewpoint of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

An overview of the current debate on the origin and spread of horse-drawn chariots with a brief review of the archaeological, archaezoological, religious, anthropological and technological evidence and a more detailed survey of linguistics. Raulwing outlines the different types of linguistic evidence, with many examples, and a general history of developments and innovations in chariot design and use. He argues that chariots originated in the Near East in the early 2nd millennium BC and that t…