Dating the final IE unity, in particular the word for "horse"

[Richard M. Alderson III]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Stanley Friesen (sarima at friesen.net) wrote:

> At 06:31 PM 3/24/00 +0530, G\341bor S\341ndi wrote:

>> (see the map accompanying the headword BEECH in Mallory and Adams).

> Does this take into account changed distributions of the tree in ancient
> times?  The climate has changed substantially since circa 4000 BCE.  Tree
> distributions will have changed.

I have not looked at Mallory and Adams, but since we tend to put into encyclo-
paedic form material gathered by others, I would expect that they have relied
on Paul Friedrich--and he certainly *did* look at fossil pollen reports and the
like for his maps of ancient tree distribution.

								Rich Alderson