"The Proto-Indo-European term for 'horse' shows only that horses were known (nobody doubts this); it does not mean that horses were already domesticated."
— Igor M. Diakonoff

January 1, 1970

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1985. "On the Original Home of the Speakers of Indo-European." Journal of Indo-European Studies 13, nos. 1-2:92-174.