David W. Anthony

David W. Anthony
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania
Academic work
Discipline	Anthropology
Sub-discipline	Indo-European studies
Institutions	Hartwick College
Main interests	Indo-European migrations
Notable works	The Horse, the Wheel, and Language (2007)
Notable ideas	Kurgan hypothesis

David W. Anthony is an American anthropologist who is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Hartwick College. He specializes in Indo-European migrations, and is a proponent of the Kurgan hypothesis. Anthony is well known for his award-winning book The Horse, the Wheel, and Language (2007).

Career

Anthony received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Anthony has been a Professor of Anthropology at Hartwick College since 1987.[1][2] 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. According to Princeton University Press, "he has conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork in Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan."[3] Anthony has been Archaeology Editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.[4]

One of his areas of research has been the domestication of the horse.[5] In 2019, his work was featured in an episode of Nova that discussed the theories of how this process occurred.[6]

Mediated works

According to the uncurated ResearchGate website, Anthony has published at least 54 research articles.[2]

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)
• First Horse Warriors (2019, NOVA)

See also

• Edgar C. Polomé
• J. P. Mallory

References

1. "David Anthony, Professor of Anthropology", www.hartwick.edu, retrieved 26 Aug 2017
2. ResearchGate: "David Anthony"
3. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8488.html (retrieved 2 Feb 2019)
4. "Journal of Indo-European Studies". Archived from the original on January 1, 2020. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
5. Dance, Amber (4 May 2022). "The tale of the domesticated horse". Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-050422-1. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
6. "NOVA: First Horse Warriors". www.pbs.org. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2019.