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Quotes from D'iakonov — Igor M. Diakonoff

1915–1999 Russia

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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.

D'iakonov (1985)

This thesis will receive—and has already received—cheers from dilettantes. Dilettantes desperately need one thing: the proof that the population of the Armenian Plateau spoke Armenian ever since the Palaeolithic period, if possible.

D'iakonov (1985)

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