Whether he's leading archaeological projects in the steppes of Russia or examining the teeth of ancient horses in Hungary, Professor of Anthropology David Anthony likes to have his hands on the past. And when he's not traveling the world to dig up history's secrets, he's an author, curator of Anthropology Collections at Hartwick's Yager Museum of Art & Culture, director of the Institute for Ancient Equestrian Studies, and professor of prehistoric archaeology of North America, Europe, and the Eurasian steppes.
Anthony's projects and titles certainly don't stop there. As curator of anthropology for the Yager Museum, he researches and mounts one exhibit every other year, most recently on Hartwick's Amazonian collections. He also directed an archaeology field school at Pine Lake, and excavations there have found a series of hunter-gatherer American Indian sites.
Anthony's work also has reached beyond Hartwick College. A Samara Valley project involving Hartwick students was funded by the National Science Foundation and National Geographic, and a discovery of the earliest evidence of horseback riding was covered on the CBS Evening News, All Things Considered, and CNN. It also was the subject of a New York Science Times feature and was published in Scientific American. All of that, and Anthony was interviewed on the Hartwick campus for The Riddle of the Desert Mummies, a feature on the Discovery Channel.
Most recently, Anthony has garnered acclaim for his book The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppe Shaped the Modern World. The book combines 20 years of research in Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan in a study of the Proto-Indo-European language.
