Re: [tied] Re: Did IE languages spread before farming?

On Sun, 09 Sep 2001 15:55:26 -0000, naga_ganesan@... wrote:

>Still I don't understand how Funnel Beaker culture is
>Indo-European speaking. Could it be pre-IE?
>I've also Mallory's In search of the IEs, and upon
>searching, didn't find this Funnel Baker culture mentioned
>as IE at all.

Mallory wouldn't, because he favours another theory, which puts the IE
homeland in the Pontic-Caspian steppe. However, the Funnel (Neck)
Beaker culture is mentioned several times in the book (see the index
under TRB = TRichterBecher culture) as a possible homeland in other
scholars' views, as connected with horses and wheeled transport, etc.
See especially pages 248-253.