Dating the final IE unity (was: Re: GREEK PREHISTORY ANDLANGUAGE)

[Stanley Friesen]

At 12:20 AM 10/20/99 -0400, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

>Likewise, efforts to show that chariots are not associated with IE-speakers
>(or at least early Indo-Iranians) have pretty well collapsed now that recent
>excavations have shown the earliest chariots to be placed not in the middle
>east or Anatolia in the 2nd millenium BCE, but in the southern Ural area and
>no later than the 20th century BCE.

Oooh, I had missed that somehow.  Just to make sure I have the right place:
do you mean near the northern shore of the Caspian?  Are they associated
with the NW Andronovo or the eastern (Volga-Ural) branch of the Yamnaya
complex?

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