Re: The Neolithic/Mesolithic Boundary(4) Climatic Instability Gives way to Stability

In sci.archaeology message news:87mz9blnlw.fld@xxxxxxxxxx by
floyd@xxxxxxxxxx (Floyd L. Davidson) . . . :

"Peter Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxx> wrote:
Floyd L. Davidson wrote: news:87veo0kklp.fld@xxxxxxxxxx
"Peter Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxx> wrote:

From reading through this thread, I got the opinion that neither of
you probably do actually know what the difference is...

I'm afraid you missed something important,

That prd is a boastful brat?

Sorry for thinking it was possible to miss that.

but perhaps you learned something about
"prd" (and reindeer) after you wrote this.
I've yet to see anything indicating any knowledge of
carioub/reindeer from either the people who claimed to know all
about them. Maybe you do, but that isn't yet evident.

Okay then, taxonomically speaking there is only one
(circumplolair) species, so it doesn't realy matter how
it is commonly known.
But what else was there to say to a prd's evasive reply
to my question to him than 'yes'?

Whatever, you seem to have confused before and after.

I don't understand what you mean.

You stated that I learned something "after".

But, I finally did! *You* actually do know the difference
between a caribou and a reindeer, which is only in how the words
are spelled.

There is some ambiguity to what a Reindeer is, I am not
altogether familiar with free roaming reindeer herds
in eurasia, but at least some authors treat Reindeer
as the domesticated version of Caribou. And since we
were talking about the Mesolithic/Neolithic boundary
then the proper name would be Caribou, or conversely
carbio = wild reindeer. That is like calling a wolf
a wild dog or Arouch, wild cattle. I call this sloppy
nomenclature.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=9881
&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock

Rangifer
Rangifer tarandus (reindeer)
Rangifer tarandus caribou
Rangifer tarandus dawsoni
Rangifer tarandus fennicus
Rangifer tarandus granti
Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus
Rangifer tarandus pearyi
Rangifer tarandus platyrhyncus
Rangifer tarandus tarandus

I consider reindeer to be closer to elk than deer.
But taxonomical the cervids are treated as deer, which
makes it somewhat difficult to explain moose but . . .

The old norse word is "hreidyri" which means [reindeer]
it was shortened and deer was added as a suffix.

We could be real sophisticated and use the old Norse
if anyone liketh it.


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