Re: [tied] Re: Rg Veda date

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From: george knysh

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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:02 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Rg Veda date

--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: george knysh<mailto:gknysh@...>
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>   Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:24 AM
>   Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Rg Veda date
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>   --- pielewe
> <wrvermeer@...<mailto:wrvermeer@...>>
> wrote:
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>   <snip>
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>   As a matter of fact, we know that such chariots
> were
>   in use there at least 1,000 years earlier, as
>   evidenced by the royal seals (with horses drawing
> the
>   chariots clearly depicted) discovered at Ur and
> Kish,
>   reliably radiocarbondated to ca. 2600 BCE (Cf. the
>   reproductions in M.V. Gorelik, "Boievi kolesnitsi
>   Perednogo Vostoka III-II tis. do n.e", in
> Drevniaia
>   Anatoliia, "Nauka":Moscow, 1985, pp. 183-202.)
>
>   ***
>   Patrick:
>
>   I have also looked at those depictions, and it is
> not as "clear" to me that, instead of asses, horses
> are being depicted.

****GK: They sure look like "mountain asses" to me and
many many many others (:=)))*****

 

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Patrick:

 

George, I suspect you think I am an 'ass' but I have never drawn a chariot (wagons to do not count, do they?).

 

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