Dating the final IE unity (was: Re: GREEK PREHISTORY AND LANGUAGE)

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>sarima at ix.netcom.com writes:

>The appearance of horse-bits (for riding) in the Sredny-Stog culture is quit
>telling here.  (Mallory does not actually mention this, as it was not yet
>known when he wrote his book).>>

-- very true; they showed up just where he predicted them.

Likewise, efforts to show that chariots are not associated with IE-speakers
(or at least early Indo-Iranians) have pretty well collapsed now that recent
excavations have shown the earliest chariots to be placed not in the middle
east or Anatolia in the 2nd millenium BCE, but in the southern Ural area and
no later than the 20th century BCE.