Re: [tied] Re: Did IE languages spread before farming?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 9320
Date: 2001-09-10

 
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From: S.Kalyanaraman
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:34 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Did IE languages spread before farming?

> Here is an example of another region which is now filled with ice: Arctic river. I think IE and PIE linguists will have to study the cycles of glaciation and deglaciation before pontificating on precise dates of incursions of IE speakers into Bha_rata.

Excuse me, but what's that got to do with PIE? There is no need for IE scholars to study Pleistocene climatology or Neanderthal mammoth-hunting (unless they happen to be interested in such subjects for their own sake), because even assuming a very liberal time depth for the Indo-European family, its history began a few thousand years after the end of the last glaciation. You could just as well demand that they study the evolution of vertebrates, continental drift, or the origin of the Solar System. Fascinating subjects, but of no direct relevance to Indo-European or Indo-Aryan migrations.
 
Piotr