Re: Odp: voting results

From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Message: 590
Date: 1999-12-16

TIME(mill.ago)-PLACE-PLANTS-ANIMALS-SUPERFAMILY(Families included)
12 - SE Asia - vegetables,rice - ? - Austric SF
(Austroasian+Austronesian+Tai)
10 - Near East - emmer/einkorn,barley - goats/sheep - Nostratic SF + ?
(North
Caucasian+Sumerian+Pre-IE European lang.)
8 - China - chinese millet - pigs - Sino-Tibetian family
8 - Sahara - millet - cattle - Sindsch SF (Niger-Kordofan +
Nilo-Saharan)
8 - New Guinea - veget. - NG pigs - TransNG family (I have not learned
it
properly yet)

[snip]

Alexander, what evidence are you using for vegetables and rice in SE
Asia. Do you have specific sites? Would you mind sharing them? And
are you calling these folks at 12 (mill. ago) Austric folks and claiming
that they were the first folks to have spoken a language? Also, could
you please explain what you mean by _mill. ago_?

I know that much has occurred in the area of Asian archaeology but
apparently I must have missed some of the newest finds. And silly me
always thought civilization originated in the Middle East.

Gerry