the Wheel and Dating PIE

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Several distinct types of cloth production also dating to the 4th millenium
-- eg., felting -- (see E.J.W. Barber, 1991, Prehistoric Textiles, Princton
university press) also have PIE lexical references.  Thus we have *pilso,
"felt".   There are also a number  of words relating to weaving in general.

But PIE does _not_ have a word for the warp-weighted loom, which was
developed in the Danube valley and spread eastwards in the Late Neolithic.
The Greek vocabulary for this type of loom is entirely borrowed, for example;
none in Indo-Iranian either, etc.

Hence PIE probably cannot have been spoken in an area and/or at a time when
this technology was known.  Hence there can't have been PIE speakers in the
Middle Danube towards the end of the Neolithic.  One more brick...