It's Colin, Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn.
> >Apart from all this Aryan indigenism nonsense [!] I was intrigued
to see Renfrew's name pop up here. I wonder could anyone tell me the
nature of his mistaken assumptions? I'm an archaeologist y'see, and
have often criticised Renfrew's Anatolian model, without being too
aware of the precise details.
> >
> >Cheers!
> >Beinn Mac an Gheairr
If one is to accept that language families such as Indo-European
exist, one has to accept the methodology used to prove such 'facts'.
I am not competent to accurately outline the 'facts' of the PIE
homeland, but they rest mainly on lexical items combined with
archaeological data; the picture you get is not of settled
agriculturalists pioneering the European Bronze Age, but of an
eneolithic/chalcolithic folk who lived mainly by stockbreeding. There
is a near-universal consensus among those who really understand the
issues that an Anatolian homeland is *impossible*.