Re: Horses’ Teeth and the Indo-European Homeland

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
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.

[Excess quoted material deleted. -BMS]

> 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. So the search for
> an Indo-European homeland is now the third rail of archaeology and
> linguistics. Anthony compares it to the Lost Dutchman's mine—
> "discovered almost everywhere but confirmed nowhere."
>
>
> 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."
>
> M. Kelkar
>

To clarify on my original comment, Lawler (2008) is wrong because
right leaning parties in India are opposed to the AIT. They have not
latched on to it, which, as I understand means supported it.

M. Kelkar