SV: the Wheel and Dating PIE

[Lars Martin Fosse]

JoatSimeon at aol.com [SMTP:JoatSimeon at aol.com] skrev 05. februar 2000 08:41:
> And, for example, cattle dairying -- well-attested from the PIE vocabulary,
> with words for 'to milk' (cows), curds, whey, 'cow rich in milk', butter,
> etc., is generally dated to the mid-4th millenium BCE. (eg., McCormick, 1992,
> "Early Faunal Evidence for Dairying", Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 11,
> 201-209).

> Note also that the genes for lactose tolerance (ability to digest cow's-milk
> as an adult) show a distinct drop-off in Mediterranean Europe and the Near
> East, but are high in northern and eastern Europeans.

This seems to me to be an interesting observation. Have you got any
bibliographic references on lactose tolerance? Also: are there any data on
lactose tolerance in India?

Lars Martin Fosse

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