Re: [tied] Re: laguage of bird names ?= Old European

In article <local.pie/bur23n+c8ov@eGroups.com> tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
. . .

> Kuhn also notes that oldest PIE words for cattle raising and
> agriculture (Viehzucht und Ackerbau, to avoid terminological
> confusion) have almost no /a/'s, whereas the names of younger
> domesticated animals, ie goat, goose, duck and chicken, is full
> of /a/'s. According to Gimbutas, the kurgan/corded ware culture

My memory might be faulty, but I thought that chickens were a late
domesticate from India and started to appear in the Mediterranean in
the later half of the 1st millenium BCE.

Can anybody confirm or reject this?

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