David W. Anthony
{{short description|American anthropologist}}
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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.{{citation| url =https://www.hartwick.edu/people/david-anthony/| title = David Anthony, Professor of Anthropology| work = www.hartwick.edu|access-date = 26 Aug 2017 }}
Anthony has been a Professor of Anthropology at Hartwick College since 1987.[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Anthony5 ResearchGate: "David Anthony"] 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."https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8488.html (retrieved 2 Feb 2019) Anthony has been Archaeology Editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.{{cite web |url=https://www.jies.org/ |url-access= |title=Journal of Indo-European Studies |last1= |first1= |date= |year= |orig-year= |editor-last= |editor-first= |editor= |editor-link= |department= |website= |series= |publisher= |agency= |location= |page= |pages= |at= |language= |trans-title= |type= |format= |arxiv= |asin= |bibcode= |doi= |isbn= |issn= |jfm= |jstor= |lccn= |mr= |oclc= |ol= |osti= |pmc= |pmid= |rfc= |ssrn= |zbl= |id= |access-date=September 7, 2020 |url-status= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101032729/https://www.jies.org/ |archive-date=January 1, 2020 |via= |quote= }}
One of his areas of research has been the domestication of the horse.{{cite journal |last1=Dance |first1=Amber |title=The tale of the domesticated horse |journal=Knowable Magazine |date=4 May 2022 |doi=10.1146/knowable-050422-1 |doi-access=free |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2022/tale-domesticated-horse |access-date=18 May 2022}} In 2019, his work was featured in an episode of Nova that discussed the theories of how this process occurred.{{cite web |title=NOVA: First Horse Warriors |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/first-horse-warriors/ |website=www.pbs.org |date=15 May 2019 |access-date=21 June 2019}}
Mediated works
According to the uncurated ResearchGate 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)
- First Horse Warriors (2019, NOVA)
See also
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Category:21st-century American anthropologists
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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