Re: [tied] Sredny-Stog, Dniepr-Donets, or Pit-Grave?

Sorry for the quick response errors. Corrections
below.

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

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> --- Richard Wordingham
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
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> > If I understand correctly, there seem to be two
> > major gaps in
> > archaeologically connecting the major IE groups:
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> > 1) Globular Amphora v. Sredny Stog.
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> ****GK: Not all agree that Globular Amphorae was IE.
> Assuming that Serednyi Stih was, there is evidence
> that pastoral groups of that
> culture (where the original corded ware pattern
> originated) as well as assimilated groups of the

symbiotic

> Lower
> Mykhailivka culture (which had cairn and kurgan
> burials, unlike Ser. St.) became immediate
> neighbours
> of the easternmost representatives of the Funnel
> Beaker c. some centuries before the expansion of
> Globular Amphorae, pushing through the severely
> weakened Late Trypilian groups. When Globular
> Amphorae
> moved eastward, occupying Galicia and Volynia,

assimilating, destroying, or pushing out the Late
Trypilians, and

> contacting Yamna near the Dnipro, it bypassed these
> western offshots of Corded Ware, and later became
> their "victim", i.e. was IE-anized as another

Corded Ware group, retaining its peculiar stone

> chamber burial style in Galicia. Yamna, for its

part, was unable to assimilate these Western Corded
Ware populations, and even lost some ground to them in
the Middle Dnipro area.******

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