[tied] Re: More numbers

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Oct 2002 11:29:30 -0000, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

>
> >Sidenote: strange that two of the three domestic species that come
> >from SE Asia (pig, dog, chicken) are unclean in the Middle East
> >(those two brought their names too). Some old ethnic conflict with
> >those who imported them?
>
> The chicken is a late (Roman period?) arrival from SE Asia.
>
> As far as I know, the pig was domesticated independently in Europe

and in SE

> Asia, and my guess would be that for reasons of proximity it

arrived in the

> Middle East from Europe first. Neolithic in any case.

There was a dicussion of it on cybalist. Swedish researchers had
found SE Asian origin for the European pig. I had some correspondence
with them. I'll look it up.

>

> The dog was the only pre-Neolithic domesticated animal. I'm not

aware of any

> evidence that it comes from SE Asia.
>

Come to think of it, no genetic evidence. But there's is Ruhlen's dog
word. So wide a distribution of a still-recognizable word to me
indicates borrowing.

>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Torsten