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both are wrong. Pastoralism as a fundamental means of early IE societies is so extensively corroborated that it is ahistorical folly to suggest otherwise. The daily use of dairy products based on peptide analyses in IEs, the reconstruction of their mythology with parallels linked to cattle and nomadic life, the low artisanal work of their pots, their tombs being buried with bones of animals consistent with a pastoralist life, such as goats, cows, etc., as the anon said, the lack of shared agricultural terms makes it difficult to hypothesize that they were an agricultural and pastoral society.
Was agriculture unknown to them? No, certainly not. Could they occasionally engage in non-extensive agricultural practices? Yes, as the Scythians and Sarmatians did, but it was not the primary means, or even used in conjunction with the pastoral model, which was the primary means of their subsistence. the cultivation of some plants is common, even in pastoralist societies.