Re: [tied] Why is PIE more centum than satem?

From: kalyan97
Message: 12244
Date: 2002-02-03

--- In cybalist@..., "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:... Indo-Iranian
material is much> harder to date, for various reasons, but the best
guesses seem to be that> both Avestan and Vedic overlap with the
earliest Greek material as well.> This means that the three language
groups should be thought of as rough> contemporaries, and we are
wrong if we think that Hittite reflects an> earlier stage simply
because it is attested from a slightly earlier period.

Is the suggested overlap consistent with the non-overlapping
chronology suggested by Piotr?

> 7600 BP --- PIE
> 6500 BP --- non-Anatolian IE
> 5000 BP --- Proto-Satem
> 4600 BP --- Proto-Indo-Iranian
> 4000 BP --- Proto-Indo-Aryan
> 3700-3200 BP --- Rigvedic Indo-Aryan
> 3200-2500 BP --- late Old Indo-Aryan
> 2500-900 BP --- Middle Indo-Aryan