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entrances into that controversial literature: Colin Renfrew, Archaeology
and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1987), and J. P. Mallory, In Search of the Indo-
Europeans (London: Thames and Hudson, 1989). Sources on the Russian
expansion across Siberia are George Lantzeff and Richard Pierce, Eastward
to Empire (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1973), and
W. Bruce Lincoln, The Conquest of a Continent (New York: Random
House, 1994).
As for Native American languages, the majority view that recognizes
many separate language families is exemplified by Lyle Campbell and Marianne
Mithun, The Languages of Native America (Austin: University of
Texas, 1979). The opposing view, lumping all Native American languages
other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene languages into the Amerind family,
is presented by Joseph Greenberg, Language in the Americas (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1987), and Merritt Ruhlen, A Guide to the
World's Languages, vol. 1 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987).
Standard accounts of the origin and spread of the wheel for transport
in Eurasia are M. A. Littauer and J. H. Crouwel, Wheeled Vehicles and
Ridden Animals in the Ancient Near East (Leiden: Brill, 1979), and Stuart
Piggott, The Earliest Wheeled Transport (London: Thames and Hudson,
1983).
Books on the rise and demise of the Norse colonies in Greenland and
America include Finn Gad, The History of Greenland, vol. 1 (Montreal:
McGill-Queens University Press, 1971), G. J. Marcus, The Conquest of
the North Atlantic (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), Gwyn
Jones, The Norse Atlantic Saga, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1986), and Christopher Morris and D. James Rackham, eds., Norse
and Later Settlement and Subsistence in the North Atlantic (Glasgow: University
of Glasgow, 1992). Two volumes by Samuel Eliot Morison provide
masterly accounts of early European voyaging to the New World: The
European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, A.D. 500-1600
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1971) and The European Discovery
of America: The Southern Voyages, A.D. 1492-1616 (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1974). The beginnings of Europe's overseas expansion
are treated by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Before Columbus: Exploration
and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492
(London: Macmillan Education, 1987). Not to be missed is Columbus's
own day-by-day account of history's most famous voyage, reprinted as