In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the o…
The Origins and Spread of Proto-Indo-European -- The Kurgan Theory and the Taming of Horses -- Warfare in Western Eurasia in the Third and Early Second Millennium BC -- Chariot Warfare, the Beginning of Militarism, and its Indo-European Connection -- The Beginnings of Militarism…
"This book argues that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe essentially began shortly before 1600 BC, when lands rich in natural resources were taken over by military forces from the Eurasian steppe and from southern Caucasia. First were the copper and silver mines (along with good …
