Re: [tied] Re: Hittites and others

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:36:45 -0700 (PDT), george knysh
<gknysh@...> wrote:

>it
>strains credulity to think that the proto-Anatolians
>would have had to wait a couple of thousand years
>before they learned about this. Or developed the
>notion of "foreign donkey" while still to the west of
>the Bosphorus.

The notion was developed by Sumerians. It has absolutely nothing to
do with (proto-)Anatolians.