Dating the final IE unity

[Stanley Friesen]

At 02:30 PM 2/8/00 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>>This is what you'd expect if proto-Indo-European speakers invented the wheel,
>>by the way -- otherwise there should be at least one loan-word for "wheel",
>>one that isn't resolvable into a PIE root.

>Wait a minute.  PIE-speakers invented the wheel?

Well, it is certainly a serious possibility.  The earliest wheels (outside
of toys) are found at times and places consistent with this conclusion.

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