The Coming of the Greeks. Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East

The New Warfare torical times is a horse skeleton, found by W. B. Emery in 1959, from Buhen, a fortress near the Second Cataract ...

The Coming of the Greeks There is also reason to believe, it seems, that chariots played an important role in the battles and ra ...

The New Warfare B.C., it would thus appear, the Hittite kings commanded a chariotry numbered in the hundreds. In contrast, an ep ...

The Coming of the Greeks as 1800 B.C. The essential point, however, is that chariot tac- tics (specifically, the use of the char ...

The New Warfare Provenance of the Chariot and of Chariot Warfare Of the specialists on the horse and chariot in the ancient worl ...

The Coming of the Greeks archaeologists whose concern is prehistoric Europe and Asia, one still encounters the view that it was ...

The New Warfare seems to have had no military use. In these areas it was what Piggott 93 has called a "prestige vehicle," used f ...

The Coming of the Greeks asia is in fact extremely limited. In 1972, while excavating a Bronze Age cemetery near the town of Rim ...

The New Warfare in use in widely scattered communities. 97 Wherever the inven- tion of the spoked wheel occurred, it very clearl ...

The Coming of the Greeks to the north or the Caucasus to the east." 99 Mesopotamia and Syria were even less self-sufficient in t ...

The New Warfare Persian king. In the sixth century B.C., Ezekiel (27:14) de- clared that the Phoenicians of Tyre, who were accus ...

The Coming of the Greeks Because of the lack of written records for the area, archaeol- ogy has always been an important source ...

The New Warfare B.C. This is in part, I suppose, because in the period of the Early Transcaucasian Culture (third millennium) th ...

The Coming of the Greeks basis of the evolution of the wagon types at Lchashen and in the Trialeti steppe of Georgia, Stuart Pig ...

The New Warfare ogists as Tocharians." 4 The spoked-wheel vehicles from Lchashen, however, are in one respect sui generis. They ...

The Coming of the Greeks carpenters and wheelwrights in Mitanni, Hatti, or the Fertile Crescent were equally accomplished, the l ...

The New Warfare chariot warfare, whether in the middle of the second millen- nium B.C. or at a later date. Horses were, of cours ...

The Coming of the Greeks Where the hyksos chiefs who took over Egypt ca. 1650 B.C. may have gotten their chariots and charioteer ...

SIX The Evolution of Opinion on PIE Speakers and the Horse In the middle of the nineteenth century, most philologists and histor ...

The Coming of the Greeks on the horse, Hehn argued that in ancient times the horse was not used for pulling plows or heavy vehic ...