Technology
Technologically, reconstruction suggests a culture of the Bronze Age: words for bronze can be reconstructed (*h₂éyos) from Germanic, Italic and Indo-Iranian, while no word for iron can be dated to the proto-language. Gold and silver were known.
An *n̥sis (Vedic Sanskrit así, Latin ensis, Serbo-Croatian nož) was a bladed weapon, originally a dagger of Bronze or in earliest times of bone. An *iḱmos was a spear or similar pointed weapon. Words for axe are *h₂égʷsih₂ (Germanic, Greek, Italic) and *péleḱu- (Vedic Sanskrit paraśú, Greek pélekus); these could have been either of stone or of bronze.
The wheel (*kʷékʷlos - Vedic Sanskrit cakrá, Greek kúklos, Old English hweol, Serbo-Croatian kolo; or *róth₂eh₂ - Vedic Sanskrit rathá, German rad, Latin rota) was known, certainly for ox-drawn carts. Horse-drawn chariots developed after the breakup of the proto-language, originating with the Proto-Indo-Iranians around 2000 BC.
Judging by the vocabulary, techniques of weaving, plaiting, tying knots etc. were important and well-developed and used for textile production as well as for baskets, fences, walls etc.
Read more about this topic: Proto-Indo-European Society
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—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
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—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
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—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)