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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> Wheat was domesticated at least 10,000 years ago
Hm. I thought millet was the first cereal. Source?
> and
> possibly was gathered 17,000 years ago (charred grain
> kernals from that time have been discovered in present
> Israel), so the words could conceivably go back a long
> ways
The agriculture words, cf
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/42285
and the word for grinding *mVl- Arnoud pointed out are suspiciously
similar, compared to the remaining vocabulary. Also bear in mind that
agriculture did not spread instantaneously from its point of origin,
in Northern Europe, eg., it started several thousand years later.
Torsten