Re: HORSA vs. EXWA

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> > But weren't those steppes a part of the Urheimat of IE speaking
> > peoples? Weren't the Iranic-speaking Scythians among the first
> > domesticators?
>
> At the time depth we are talking about (ca. 3500 BC if not earlier) it
> makes little sense to speak of the Scythians or even Iranians (rather
> than their remote linguistic ancestors). But yes, IE presence in the
> steppe zone at that time is not seriously questioned by anyone.
>

If you ask my opinion, I think the "Kurgan people" in the
Mallory-Gimbutas' theory of IE homeland can be equated with the speakers
of proto-Indo-Iranian.