Re: Afro-Asiatic

In reply to my point

> John
> >Yup, this second wave (unlike the first) definitely took off via the
> >Palestine-Egyptian bridge. Aurignacian cultures spread rapidly north
> >and west, through Anatolia, and the Balkans onto the Eurasian steppe.
> >They were in Siberia north of Mongolia at Malaya Cave near Baikal by
> >about 35,000 BCE.

Glen wrote

> Wait, I thought you said that the Aurignacian culture spread from

France

> west across the more widespread steppes existant then. ?? So to be

clear,

> this Second Wave (DeneCaucasian) came out of Egypt into Anatolia?

This is

> what I was claiming all along, the S-Group (NigerK, Nostratic,

BuruYen,

> SinoDene) moves along the south eastward and up to the eastern

steppes and

> the T-Group going north and west (Basque, NEC, Hattic, HurroU).

Please

> clarify.

Glen

Aurignacian culture, derived from the Upper Paleolithic cultures of
northeastern Africa, took off through Palestine, Anatolia, the Balkans
40,000 BCE, and then split west (going to Spain and France, and east,
arriving at lake Baikal at Malaya by 36,000 years BCE. This was the
second wave out of Africa. (S Group Dene Caucasian, your Niger
Kordofanian, Sino-Tibetan et al)

The group that took off west developed Gravetian and Solutrean cultures
that by 25,000 BCE had spread eastwards from a centre possibly in
France, as far as the Urals. By 15,000 years BCE elements of this
culture had spread as far east as Afonsova Gora at Krasnoyask in
Siberia. This would have been T group Dene Caucasian.

Hope this helps

Regards

John