Re: All of creation in Six and Seven

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> Torsten:
> >No, part of the way is by sea. Thus you need a boat that is capable
> >of going both both by sea and by river. Not very high tech, I'd

say.

>
> That's nice.
>
>
> >People on boats have stuff on board you can't get from your

neighbor.

> >Why don't you go down to the harbour in Vancouver [...]
>
> Whatever baseless pet-theories make your little heart a-flutter.
>
> IE speakers don't seem to have lived on islands or harbours. They

were

> in-land, up some river perhaps, but in-land. More like Winnipeg and

almost

> as cold in the winter :P

The Don is not the Frazier River; it is much more silent... and
navigable. No whitewater here.

>So any which way you slice it, there's an
> intermediary group of traders.

Anyway _you_ slice it. For the first people to arrive there by boat,
the Don would have been no obstacle. It's several hundred meters wide.

>Unless you can describe the "item(s)" that
> IE speakers "couldn't get" that shows up in the archaeological

record of

> the North Pontic, I'd say your theory is up the creek without a

paddle.

>

You can always get overland what you can get by coast-hugging ships.
But it's so much more expensive: a lot of intermediaries who want
their cut, and horse- or donkey-backs just can't carry as much as a
ship can. When both alternatives are present, ship transport have
always won hands down, at least up to the invention of the train and
the truck.

Torsten