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

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>sarima at friesen.net writes:

>My take on this would be that this supports my idea that the chariot proper
>was invented by Proto-Indo-Iranian speakers (as opposed to being PIE proper
>in origin).

-- true at present; although with a date of 2100 BCE, we're nearly back to
PIE times (3000 BCE or so).  The Shinasta vehicles show definite signs of an
ox-cart ancestry, although they're indubitably chariots.