Re: [tied] Three Horses revisited

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From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
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Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Three Horses revisited


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> Archaeologically it is most
> tempting (assuming all that has so far been assumed)
> to associate the "o-iri-aspya" with the Srubna
> culture.


Archaeologically the Srubnaya (Timber Grave) culture leads in the European
Iron Age to Cimmerians, Meoti and perhaps some forest-steppe cultures of
Middle Donets and Middle Don. It has not been proved that any of them was
formed by an Iranian speaking population. I guess they could be Indo-Aryan
speaking (this would explain a lot in the local toponymics and in forming
the Slavic culture).

Anyway Scythians came from the Asian (in modern sense) steppes where the
Andronovo culture was spread during the Late Bronze Age. This culture was
very closely genetically related to the Srubnaya culture (the Poltavka
culture was "the mother" for both of them) but still distinguished from it.

Alexander