Glen asked
> John, why would Hattic adopt a name for a native goddess from a
foreign
> Nostratic language? Which one??
Personally I see it was the Nostratic language spoken by the Zarzian
culture (circa 12,000 - 8,500 BCE), the mesolithic culture that
introduced the domestication of the dog to Eurasia and spread the bow
and arrow (which had appeared in Africa 30,000 BCE, but only arrived
in the Middle East with the Kebaran (circa 18000 BCE to 10,000 BCE or
thereabouts (I am not thoroughly consulting my chronology on this
matter) to be the language that could have spread to the Hattic.
Nostratic mesolithic cultures (which had created the
Flannery's "broad spectrum revolution" were more adapted to post
glacial conditions than were Dene Caucasian "big game hunters" of the
Upper Paleolithic.
This Zarzian culture I see as close to the root of the Eurasian
or perhaps the Steppe group you posit Glen. Culturally it seems that
Altaics moved one way, whilst Uralics and Indo-Tyrrhenians moved
another, and Elamo-Dravidians moved in a third. It was the last time
archaeologically that all these groups were residing in the same
place
at the same time.
Archaeologically this makes sense, I don't know what you think
linguistically.
Regards
John