Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language

Witty and erudite, Written in Stone is the first etymology book to reveal how the English language is based on original Stone Age words.
Half the world’s population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue. A mother tongue first spoken in Stone Age times, on the steppes of central Eurasia 6,500 years ago. It was so effective that it flourished for two thousand years. It was a language that spread from the shores of the Black Sea across almost all of Europe a…