GREEK PREHISTORY AND LANGUAGE

[Adam Hyllested]

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Sean Crist wrote:

> 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.

That is not even necessary. I think the PIE speakers had a word for
every animal just _living_ in the area.

Adam Hyllested