Balkan Kurgans

[Stanley Friesen]

At 06:23 AM 2/8/00 +0000, Hans Holm wrote:

>A question to the professional archeologists reading here:

>In JIES 21-3,4/Fall/Winter 1993:207214, I found an article
>'Silver in the Yamna (Pit-grave) Culture in the Balkans'.

>Though silver cannot speak - is there any evidence pro or contra an
>(Pre-)Indo-European community there???

Well, weakly pro.  PIE has a reconstructible word that *probably* meant
silver, and it is derivable from a root meaning "white", which makes it
unlikely to be borrowed.

But that is not very constraining.  Silver is relatively easy to smelt, and
was widespread very early.

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