Re: [tied] Bellwood rejects the Pontic steppe homeland hypothesis

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
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> > Bellwood rejects the Pontic steppe hypothesis.
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> The
> > reconstructed PIE vocabulary
> > was not exclusively pastoralist, and neither is the
> > archaeological
> > record entirely pastoralist from the relevant period
> > on the steppes
> > (Mallory 1997; Anthony and Brown 2000).
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> ****GK: That is supposed to be an argument against the
> Pontic hypothesis? (:=)))*****
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> Recent
> > research on horse
> > domestication archaeologist Marsha Levine (et. al
> > 1999) suggests much
> > later dates for horse riding, only late second
> > millennium BC and thus
> > irrelevant for PIE dispersal.
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> ****GK: One reads this stuff and wonders "Did Cybalist
> just start yesterday? Have all the archives been
> jettisoned?" Marsha Levine's "suggestions" were
> disposed of years ago....Check it out..*****
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I read messages 10948, 10502, 10270. Dereivka horse head is iron age.

M. kelkar

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