Re: [tied] Re: Mohyla-Movila

--- gknysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <george.st@...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > This mugel-m�gel-mogil-magur-etc. seems to be more
> than
> coincidence...
>
>
> GK: Let's follow this up for a moment. We have
> a word in at
> least 3 IE language families with meanings that can
> be related to the
> actual 'appearance' of kurgans. As to size. The
> earliest kurgans
> weren't very big as far as I know. Not more than
> about 2 meters, and
> usually smaller. And this persisted for millennia

*****GK: Another thought: they may not have been big,
but compared to earlier "flat" burials (e.g. like
those of the Dnipro-Donetsk or Serednyj Stih cultures)
they may have seemed to be so.*****


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