Quote Originally Posted by maddhan1979 View Post
On the other hand this could also mean that there were various different type of "Ban" or "Van" people, that were selling stuff to the speakers of indo-european langauge. If we look into the life of "Ban" or "Van" people there is not a single tribe that resides in "Ban" or "Van" or rather there are many different tribes that can be seen living in any given "Ban" or "Van", depending on the place type of "Ban" or "Van".
Life of these ancient forest dwellers could have been very different from the lives of nomads and travelers. Nomads and travelers could have been first people to start animal husbandry and farming in human history while the forest dwellers could have been early starter of trade and trading practices which would have emerged out of trade of goods from forest. Diversity of the tribes of people residing in the forest also meant diversity of goods that were procured from the forest and sold in ancient markets.