GREEK PREHISTORY AND LANGUAGE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/19/99 1:41:33 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
kurisuto at unagi.cis.upenn.edu writes:

<< n fairness to Renfrew, *ekwos is not probative.  It's true that the horse
had not >been domesticated at the early date for PIE unity which Renfrew
postulates; but >you need not have domesticated the horse to have a word for
it.  The PIE speakers >could have been hunting wild horses for their meat,
for example. >>

-- the words for wheel, wheeled vehicle, 'to journey by wheeled vehicle', and
for axle, plow, yoke, coulter-pin, etc., are rather more probative.