Re: [tied] 3rd millennium chariot = IE?Tautology!

From: george knysh
Message: 24291
Date: 2003-07-08

--- "S.Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:> I, for one, do not
> identify the
> Proto-Indo-European speakers with any >
> chariot-driving Bronze Age
> peoples of Central Asia, so the lack of > support
> for such an idea
> doesn't worry me a whit. :-))
>
> I like the icon, Piotr!
>
> I ain't worried either.

*****GK: Neither am, I since there is a bit more to IE
archaeology than 3rd millennium Central Asian chariots
or waggons (:=)). By then of course we are long past
the stage of "Proto" or "Pro" IE. And if Andronovo is
not IE good luck with explaining the appearance of the
Sarmatians.*****


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