Re: What features do P-I-E languages have in common?
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 17, 2003, 2:32 |
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Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
> An additional difficulty is that llamas are quite difficult to breed;
> they cannot be kept indoors, for example, or anywhere near humans.
> This impedes their use as beasts of burden, even after domestication.
In addition, they can carry loads but not pull them, IIRC.
> (Read _Guns, Germs and Steel_ by Jarod Diamond for great discussion
> of these issues.)
+1
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