the Wheel and Dating PIE

[Stanley Friesen]

At 02:50 AM 2/5/00 -0500, JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:
>Several distinct types of cloth production also dating to the 4th millenium
>-- eg., felting -- (see E.J.W. Barber, 1991, Prehistoric Textiles, Princton
>university press) also have PIE lexical references.  Thus we have *pilso,
>"felt".   There are also a number  of words relating to weaving in general.

I am generally somewhat skeptical about archaeological evidence relating to
cloth.  It is so very perishable that it need not be attested any time near
its origin.

>But PIE does _not_ have a word for the warp-weighted loom, which was
>developed in the Danube valley and spread eastwards in the Late Neolithic.

This, however, is somewhat different matter, as such a loom is less perishable.

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