Re: Dating PIE

Sorry, 4000 BP was intended. "BC" is a typo (not a Freudian slip :)).
The precision of my "timeline" is soo rough that BP may be taken as
signifying "before 2001" or "years ago" (give or take half a century)
rather than "before AD 1950". The latter convention is only
obligatory when quoting uncalibrated radiocarbon dates.

Piotr

--- In cybalist@..., markodegard@... wrote:
> > Looking at the table of PG's table, I have a question:
> > is there a typo? "BP" instead of "BC" (in the case of PIA).
>
> I suspect so, but Piotr will answer for himself.
>
> The 'problem' with using 'before present' is that this is very real
> dating system: BP is to be construed as 'before AD 1950'; 'years
ago'
> or 'y/a' is unambiguous, but you do need to check the date a
statement
> was actually made this way.