--- mkelkar2003 <
swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis
>
> "On the linguistic turf, there comes a severe attack
> by Kathrin Krell
> (1998) who finds a great incongruity between the
> terms found in the
> reconstructed Indo-European language and the
> cultural level met with
> in the kurgans. For example, Krell holds that the
> Indo-Europeans had
> reached an agricultural level whereas the Kurgan
> people were just at a
> pastoral stage."
>
> Krell, Kathrin Susanne. 1994. Modern Indo-European
> Homeland
> Hypotheses: A critical examination of linguistic
> arguments. M.A.
> thesis, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
****GK: I haven't read Ms.Krell's M.A. thesis, but if
the above report is correct her advisors (and she
also) have much to answer for. An M.A. student is not
usually expected to operate at the level of producing
new and original knowledge, but IS expected to be
familiar with established knowledge. It was well known
in 1994 (or should have been to those who recommended
her readings in archaeology) that the kurgan culture
(more properly the Yamna/ya c.), while principally
pastoral, was well acquainted with agriculture, and
practised it on a moderate scale (as their
agricultural implements attest). The preceding culture
(Serednyj Stih/Sredny Stog),not yet "kurgan" as to
burial practices, was of the same type (primarily
pastoral/secondarily agricultural). Any proper book on
the economy of Yamna and /or Serednyj Stih has the
information. And it may also be found in Mallory's
classic synthesis (1989, pp.198-199, 211-212).*****
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