--- mkelkar2003 <
smykelkar@...> wrote:
>
> "I (Kawami) have no idea what goes on in linguistic
> circles, but in
> archaeological ones Gimbutas' "kurgan-theory" is now
> irrelevant.
*****GK: The kurgan was associated with the Yamna
culture [ca. 3500-2900 BCE]. It became "irrelevant" in
that earlier cultures, some of which subsequently
merged in Yamna, only knew (and used it) sporadically
as a burial form. And it is in these earlier cultures
that the Eastern Europe and Western Eurasia
protagonists for the emergence of the PIEuropeans now
seek their "beginning". Dnipro-Donetsk and Khvalynsk
preferred flat graves, but used the ochre-painting
ritual extensively. Serednyj Stih [ca. 4250-3500] was
a corded ware, battle-axe, ochre-painting, and "horse"
culture, especially in its phase II, but knew not the
kurgan (unlike Lower Mykhajlivka). Some of the
cultures which converted to the "Holy Cord"
pastoralist religion (like a few late Trypilian
groups) did not know the kurgan either. Still the
spread of corded wear ideology, accompanied by
migrations larger and smaller, is the best available
explanation imho for the Indo-Europeanization of
Central and Northern Europe.******
There
> is far more information about the Bronze Age on the
> steppes where it
> is clear that there were MANY types of cultures (&
> probably languages
> but we have no writing so we can't really know).
> Most steppe
> archaeologists today are more interested the
> physical evidence than
> New Age romanticism. "
*****GK: It all began long before the Bronze Age. And
the correction of Gimbutas in no way subsidizes OIT,
which remains one of the worst explanations about the
spread of the IE populations yet conceived.*****
>
> Trudy S. Kawami, received her Ph.D in art history
> and archaeology from
> Columbia University, where she specialized in
> ancient art of Western
> Asia. Throughout her career, she has carried out
> research in Turkey,
> Iran, Israel as well as major European museums.
*****GK: Not the prime candidates for the IE
homeland.****
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