05-21-2013, 08:57 AM
Hi, Michael
Duh! When you're a ancient pastoral person, it SEEMS likely you might construct a handy portable abode that you can put up and take down in an hour or two. Frankly, all that has been attributed to the Mongols was actually made on the steppe thousands of years earlier. I'm willing to bet the Scythians didn't invent the yurt, either. It was probably some person in the early bronze age who had tamed a horse and rode it in the 2nd millenium BC. :whistle:
Thanks for the tip on Mallory's Origins. Just downloaded it. :-)
Duh! When you're a ancient pastoral person, it SEEMS likely you might construct a handy portable abode that you can put up and take down in an hour or two. Frankly, all that has been attributed to the Mongols was actually made on the steppe thousands of years earlier. I'm willing to bet the Scythians didn't invent the yurt, either. It was probably some person in the early bronze age who had tamed a horse and rode it in the 2nd millenium BC. :whistle:
Thanks for the tip on Mallory's Origins. Just downloaded it. :-)
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb