From: george knysh
Message: 46513
Date: 2006-11-01
> Is there supposed to be some point to this goulash?____________________________________________________________________________________
>
> --- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
>
> > "Although significantly altered from their
> original
> > composition,
> > comparison of the isotopic and distributional data
> > obtained for the
> > samples from Botai with data obtained for modern
> and
> > prehistoric
> > reference horse fats /cut for economy GK/ etc etc
> etc.
>
> The postulated expansion of IE associated with the
> spread of Corded Ware cultures to northern and
> central
> Europe in the 4th and 3rd millennium BC from a
> Ponto-Caspian heartland does not depend on the
> classical "kurgan" theory, and does not require the
> existence of nomadism or even the presence of
> cavalry
> as a preponderant military element for its
> justification. That's for starters. The attempt of
> the
> Renfrew school to discredit the notion of early
> horse
> domestication in the steppes by distinguishing this
> from "taming" is a separate issue altogether. I
> don't
> find their arguments particularly convincing. Much
> of
> this has already been discussed here at various
> times.
> Must one begin anew every few months? How many times
> is it necessary to repeat that it is Corded Ware
> (originating in the Serednyj Stih/Sredny Stog
> culture
> prior to the latter's evolution into Yamna) which
> assimilated Trypilia and Globular Amphorae, and not
> the other way around?
> Also: instead of re-posting the various citations in
> the aforementioned goulash, why not respond to JL's
> query about the five designations of "horse"?