Re: From words to dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or phylogeneti

> > ****GK: I apologize to Torsten for responding to Kelkar out of
> > turn. But he has done the same to me. When told that, depending on
> > > the historical epoch, migrations can be either peaceful or
> > violent, assured that the nature (violent or peaceful) of the
> > original IE arrival in India is inconclusive,
>
> Its the not just the"nature of the original IE arrival in India"
> that is inconclusive, the *arrival* itself is inconclusive. The
> very first chain in the mounted warrior hypothesis is broken, given
> the fact that horse was first domesticated by Botai Turks and their
> are five different IE roots for horse.

The horse was first domesticated by the Botai Turks and therefore
India wasn't conquered by IE-speaking mounted warriors? I don't
understand your way of reasoning.

Torsten

PS Sorry George, now I did it too ;-)