the Wheel and Dating PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>Steve Long

>It indicates that the horse would be an rather unlikely candidate for a
>dating of PIE unity in the Ukraine later than 4000BC.

-- domestic horse =/= wild horse.

>And of course the evidence to date is that livestock domestication
>accompanied the rest of agriculture into the Ukraine at 4500BC or earlier.

-- but not the domestic horse.  That was not part of the original Near
Eastern 'package' and the domestic horse is intrusive in the original areas
of Eurasian agriculture.

PS: there is no such thing as "domestication technology".  There are only
animals which have been domesticated.  Do you mean the _idea_ of
domestication?