--- Richard Wordingham
<
richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> If I understand correctly, there seem to be two
> major gaps in
> archaeologically connecting the major IE groups:
>
> 1) Globular Amphora v. Sredny Stog.
****GK: Not all agree that Globular Amphorae was IE.
Assuming that Serednyi Stih was, there is evidence
that pastoral groups evidencing elements of that
culture (where the original corded ware pattern
originated) as well as evidence of the symbiotic Lower
Mykhailivka culture (which had cairn and kurgan
burials, unlike Ser. St.) became immediate neighbours
of the easternmost representatives of the Funnel
Beaker c. some centuries before the expansion of
Globular Amphorae, pushing through the severely
weakened Late Trypilian groups. When Globular Amphorae
moved eastward, occupying Galicia and Volynia, and
contacting Yamna near the Dnipro, it bypassed these
western offshots of Corded Ware, and later became
their "victim", i.e. was IE-anized as another set of
Corded Ware groups, retaining its peculiar stone
chamber burial style in Galicia.******
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