From: george knysh
Message: 53214
Date: 2008-02-15
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh****GK: I'm more interested in what Kyiv, Donetsk and
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> > --- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
> >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco
> > > Brighenti" <frabrig@>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > > 1. the early habitat of Proto-Indo-Iranians
> was in
> > > an area close to
> > > > the Central Asian steppe-taiga interface,
> e.g.,
> > > near the Urals;
> > > >
> > > > 2. these Proto-Indo-Iranians called themselves
> > > *arya-.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hope this helps,
> > > > Francesco
> > >
> > > "Indo-Iranian" is a linguistic idea. It does not
> > > refer to any actual
> > > people who can be traced back into history.
> >
> > ****GK: The Indo-Iranian collectivity broke up
> before
> > the beginning of "history", sometime in the third
> > millennium BCE, while still in the steppes of
> Eurasia.
> > This collectivity can be traced back into
> > "prehistory", partly on linguistic, partly on
> > archaeological grounds. Since the break occurred
> long
> > before the Indo-Aryans appeared in the Indian
> > subcontinent as a notable presence, the
> reconstruction
> > and trace=back does not involve studying Indian or
> > Iranian archaeological data.****
>
>
> Check out what the Harvard archaeologist Lambarg
> Karlovsky 2005.pdf
> about the "Indo-Iranian" collectivity. Thanks!
>
> M. Kelkar
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