Please forgive the reposting but this is from GRFoote on the
paleoanthropology list. He disagrees vehemently with Glen Gordon.
Gerry
Gerry and all:
I have resisted posting here for some time, but that last post finally
hit a
raw nerve, in that I study nostratic and population movements.
Randy Foote
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>>Subject: cybalist] Re: Afro-Asiatic
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:24:07 -0800
From: "John Croft" <
jdcroft@...>
Reply-To:
cybalist@egroups.com
To:
cybalist@egroups.com
Cybalist:
> >15-8,500 BCE - the movement that took the microlithic-mesolithic
> >cultures from North Africa to the Eurasian forests (the probable
>origin of Nostratic)<<
> The third wave came out of Africa with the warming of climates. They
had cultures pre-adapted to warmer climates, and followed their
climates northward. These were the Nostratics.<
RF:
Nostratic or Eurasiatic originating in North Africa is a new one on me.
Any
sensible study of language origin would place Nostratic somewhere in the
broad Caucasus / Black Sea / Caspian Sea region. Anyone with a real
interest
in the facts should read "Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis",
by
Alan Bomhard, or Joseph Greenberg's coming book on Eurasiatic.
Cybalist:
>> how did the Dene Caucasian
Niger-Kordofanian language, and later the non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic
languages get into Africa *before the neolithic*.<<
RF:
Who on earth considers D-C to be a NK language? First I've heard of
that one.
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