PIE Ploughs

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 29848
Date: 2004-01-20

What pulled the PIE-speakers' ploughs? I am not sure that cattle
(_Bos_, not _Ovis_) were domesticated early enough. Is it possible
that *h2arh3trom 'plough' was formed after the PIE dispersal, as may
have been the case with *kWekWlos 'wheel'? Could *h2arh3trom have
actually originally meant 'hoe'?

Richard.