Re: [tied] Re: Euxine Event.

But what kind of monkeys? The genus Macaca only exists from India to East,
with the North African species that exists also in Gibraltar; Baboons only
in Africa and Arabia. The Caspian Tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) surely
existed in this region.
I think the monkeys known at Western Asia were brought by traders from
Arabia, Egypt or India. The Asian elephant had a extinct subspecies in
Pakistan.
Joao SL
Rio

----- Original Message -----
From: John Croft <jdcroft@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 5:24 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Euxine Event.


> João wrote:
> > And Elamite? Dravidian? Sumerian? Anatolica? Some words for
> "monkey"
> or
> > lion?
>
> >From what I know the Caspian population of monkeys and tigers has
> been
> isolated since before the Pliestocene period, if not the Pliocene.
> They would have only been found in language groups that had been
> forced into this mountainous realm.
>
> Regards
>
> John
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