Re: [tied] Horses’ Teeth and the Indo-European Homeland

At 4:22:49 PM on Sunday, September 21, 2008, mkelkar2003
wrote:

> "09 Sep 2008

> Horses' Teeth and the Indo-European Homeland
> Indo-European, Horses, Ethnography, Language, Archaeology

> Andrew Lawler describes an interesting approach to
> linguistic archaeology.

[...]

> That contentious debate, says Anthony, has been
> "alternately dryly academic, comically absurd, and
> brutally political." To advance their own goals, Nazi
> racists, American skinheads, Russian nationalists, and
> Hindu fundamentalists have all latched on to the idea of
> light-skinned and chariot-driving Aryans as bold
> purveyors of an early Indo-European culture, which came
> to dominate Eurasia. [...]

> Read the whole thing."

> "Hindu fundamentalists have all latched on to the idea of
> light-skinned and chariot-driving Aryans as bold purvey"

> Lawler (2008)is wrong about the "Hindu fundmentalist."

On the contrary, he's right on target; the only difference
is that where some embrace it, the Hindu fundamentalists
can't stomach it. And none of the groups that he named pays
any attention to the fact that scholarship has long since
moved on.

Brian