[tied] Re: Proving India is the Indian Homeland

> >> [Piotr:] ... the presence or absence of horses is really

irrelevant inasmuch as

> horses don't speak Indo-Aryan or PIE ...
>
> > [Dean:] LOL!
>
> I mean what I say.

I understand that. It was presented in an amusing way though.

> To sum up, the horse question looms large in the ritual squibbles

between the Harvard Indologist team and the Indian autochthonists,
but most outsiders, including, I suppose, a large number of Indo-
Europeanists, contemplate the debate with feelings close to
incredulity.

>

Hehe, yes. But then I've heard historians say the same things about
linguists!

Specialization tends to create this which is why its valuable for us
to get out of the ivory tower and talk to the neighbors some times.
The solutions to the big questions in this field involve several
disciplines with quite disparate world-views and data sets.