Renfrew and IE Overlords

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>In a message dated 1/21/00 3:40:49 AM Mountain Standard Time, rao.3 at osu.edu
>writes:

>2nd millennium BCE chariots, as far as we know, were extremely light. Given
>the size of horses in use then (ponies by modern standards) and the
>requirement of quick acceleration, they could not have been otherwise. It
>would not possible to use them except as mobile archery platforms or
>personal transport (more like a motor cycle than a pick-up truck).

-- there are several references to shock action by chariots in the Egyptian
records (Kadesh, etc.) and Hittite chariots carried a crew of 3.