Re: Tolos & Kurgan

John Croft wrote:

> We must be carefull to stress burial tholoi, as as I suggested in the
> Halafian post the first "tholoi" were houses, not grave yard features.
> Perhaps we should add
>
> Tholoi (Aegean, Mycenaean) to our list.
>
> Cultural similarities may be a bit hard to prove in the Boyne in
> Ireland being IE so early (amongst the first barrows in Western Europe).
>
> Perhaps we should add dolmen (Breton) and Cromlech (Celtic) to our list
> of large burried gravesites. Given there remote age I dount that most
> of the later are IE
>
> Regards
>
> John

John, are "tholoi" confined to (Aegean, Mycenaean) whereas "tolos" are
(Caucasus, Central Asia, Southern Russia). Don't forget, Piotr claims
that "tolos" is a Polish word.

And what of "dolmen" and "cromlech"? If these terms are NOT IE, then
what could they possibly be?

Gerry
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