Re: [tied] The insufficiency of OIT (was:Re: Of cows and living)

From: george knysh
Message: 43558
Date: 2006-02-24

--- mkelkar2003 <smykelkar@...> wrote:

If the pre-Indo-Aryan "Harrapans"
> lacked chariots
> then the post Indo-Aryan lacked them too. Arguments
> from silence can
> cut both ways.


*****GK: Speaking of chariots, unless I am sorely
mistaken, practically all (if not in fact all) of the
Yamna and Catacomb culture chariots were recovered
from graves. None as independent relics "just lying
there". So when they stopped being included in
burials, it would not be surprising not to find any in
late 1rst mill. BCE India, even if written evidence
attests to their existence. There are, furthermore, no
chariots in Harrapan graves, which are contemporary to
the latter phase of the Catacomb c. of the north [ca.
2500-2200 BCE]. So we have the oddity of people being
buried in the steppes with Rigvedic type objects
(e.g.chariots, horses, Soma-drinking implements et
al.) while none of that can be found in the Harappa
graves.*****


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