Re: [TIED] Re: IE, AA, Nostratic etc.

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 2819
Date: 2000-07-10

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [TIED] Re: IE, AA, Nostratic etc.


Glenn wrote:
 
Actually they are called "Bigfoot" in both singular and
plural. :)
 
Well, I've recently participated in an egroup discussion where these monsters loomed large, and people apparently living in the very heart of Bigfoot country called them Bigfeet in the plural. As they are about as real as Big Bird (I mean Bigf..t, not my egroup pals), it hardly matters. There is no memory of mammoth hunting in Siberia, though real mammoth carcasses are regularly found there, fossil ivory has always been an important object of trade, and mammoths survived Neanderthals by twenty millennia at least. The local stories about mammoths have nothing to do with reality. It's extremely unlikely that any cultural memory of the Neanderthals should have survived till historical times.
 
Piotr