A review by corinna_naso
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony

This book manages to be a non-racist look at the Indo-European cultures that eventually had a massive influence over a good portion of the world. I personally found the linguistic information in the first half a bit more interesting than the archaeology in the second half, but I found the anecdotes of performing experimental archaeology to determine when horses began to be used for draft animals especially fascinating. This book also included a passage on the moral implications of adopting new technologies, including agriculture technologies, that completely blew my mind.