Re: Horse Sense

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 57304
Date: 2008-04-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> > Arnaud Fournet wrote:
> Richard Wordingham wrote:
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> >> There are no horses in Anatolia where PIE originates.

> >Must've been eaten :) There are neolithic horse bones at Çatalhöyük.

> Not Neolithic.
> - 2000 is well beyond Neolithic.

Read http://www.catalhoyuk.com/archive_reports/2002/ar02_09.html .
Note the observation, "The presence of horse is particularly
interesting since prior to the recent excavations at Çatalhöyük it was
thought to have been absent from the Konya plain before the Bronze
Age. It now seems it was present at least through the Neolithic and
Early Chalcolithic."

Richard.