From: george knysh
Message: 29395
Date: 2004-01-12
>******GK: How would this deal with the difficulties
> George, how could we come to a common position
> having taken into account all
> the facts?
>
> What do you think about the following scenario?
> The most early groups (western or not - unimportant
> here) of the culture
> classified as "CW" emerge earlier than the Yamnaya
> c. Indeed, they belong to
> the previous epoque - Eneolithic, as they use only
> copper, have no wagons.
> But this is actually a special culture which should
> not be mixed with the
> classical CW cultures, although it may have a lot of
> common with them
> (pottery style, stone artefacts etc.). The ancestor
> of this "pre-CW" culture
> can be Sredniy Stog or another Late Eneolithic
> steppe culture.
> Thereupon the Yamnaya c. emerges as a result of
> interaction of the steppe
> Eneolithic and Maikop. The main part of it remains
> in the steppe and
> develops there as the "normal" Yamnaya culture.
> Another part goes to western
> steppe-forest and comes up [dogonyaet] with the
> "pre-CW". As a result of
> this mixture the real (completed) Corded Ware
> complex of the Early Bronze
> Age emerges.
>*****GK: "calcination" = "cremation". Sorry for the
> Alexander
>
> P.S. Please explain this phrase:
> "the remains were not inhumations but calcinations"
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