the Wheel and Dating PIE

[Eduard Selleslagh]

[ moderator re-formatted ]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stanley Friesen" <sarima at friesen.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 8:55 AM

> At 12:53 AM 2/4/00 -0500, X99Lynx at aol.com wrote:
>> I simply MUST point out what is happening here.
>> Much of your 'late Neolithic technology' - aside from the wheel - no longer
>> supports the unity dates they once did and they do not necessarily refute
>> the neolithic hypothesis regarding PIE.

>> in the Ukraine, metal smelting appears about 4500BC - hammered metal appears
>> well before that.  The domesticated horse is now at about 4000BC and horse
>> bones are in the food pits a thousand years before that.

> Umm, circa 4000 BC is my current best guess for the time of unity.  (I
> currently suspect the Sredny Stog culture of being the basic PIE culture).

> The horse as food doesn't fit with its place in PIE.

[snip]

[Ed]

They were sacrificed though: see e.g. G. Dumézil (La religion romaine
archaïque) : Equus October in Rome, As'vamedha in India. (note also Brahman
<> Flamen). Usually (I don't know in this case) at least parts of sacrificed
animals were eaten.

Ed. Selleslagh