Re: A SinoTibetan-Vasconic Comparison: A very, very, very, very len

Glen replied to my post

> >Given your reconstructed tree of Dene Caucasian S & T families, I
>would
> >suggest on "genetic" and "cultural" grounds that S was the >group

that was

> >earliest (circa 40,000 BCE) (i.e. could be the >Aurignacians - out

of

> >Africa people), where as T developed from >proto-S which moved far

to the

> >west, and later moved out onto the >steppes (25,000 BCE with the

Gravetian

> >culture wave).

That

> Weird. Well, I would fight the T-Group evolving FROM the S-Group. The
> T-Group moves onto the steppes?? From where? The S-Group is supposed

to go

> eastward and the T-Group north.

I would say the S group are recognisably present from the time of the
Aurignacian culture in Palestine. It moved north across the Balkans,
onto the steppes and then East and Westward.

Maybe T group (Gravetians) originated in the West in the
Franco-Cantabrian region (where Basque is today) and spread Eastwards
onto the Eurasian Steppes, replacing the earlier Dene C "S" languages
that were in the region.

How does that hold up?

John