David W. Anthony is an American anthropologist who is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at

Hartwick College Hartwick College is a private liberal arts college in Oneonta, New York. The institution's origin is rooted in the founding of Hartwick Seminary in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick. In 1927, the Seminary moved to expand into a ...

. He specializes in

Indo-European migrations The Indo-European migrations were hypothesized migrations of Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) speakers, and subsequent migrations of people speaking derived Indo-European languages, which took place approx. 4000 to 1000 BCE, potentially expl ...

, 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 pa ...

. Anthony is well known for his award winning book ''

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language ''The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World'' is a 2007 book by the anthropologist David W. Anthony, in which the author describes his "revised Kurgan theory." He explores the or ...

'' (2007).

Career

Anthony received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...

. Anthony has been a Professor of Anthropology at

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

Oneonta, New York Oneonta ( ) is a Administrative divisions of New York#City, city in southern Otsego County, New York, Otsego County, New York (state), New York, United States. It is one of the northernmost cities of the Appalachian Region. According to the 2020 ...

. According to

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, "he has conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork in

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...

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, and

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

." Anthony has been Archaeology Editor of the '' Journal of Indo-European Studies. One of his areas of research has been the

domestication of the horse A number of hypotheses exist on many of the key issues regarding the domestication of the horse. Although horses appeared in Paleolithic cave art as early as 30,000 BCE, these were wild horses and were probably hunted for meat. How and when ho ...

. 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 NHNZ, formerly Natural History New Zealand, is a New Zealand-based television production house. It works and co-produces with multiple major global broadcasters: Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Science, A&E Television Networks, Nat ...

) * ''First Horse Warriors'' (2019, NOVA)

References

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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