Re: [tied] The IE homeland

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> I, for one, don't date the "Indo-Europeanisation" of
> the steppes to the LBK times but to the period just
> before and after 3000 BC. I do not insist that the
> earlier local cultures east of the Dnieper were
> IE-speaking.

*****GK: I don't see how it is possible to interpret
the Yamna (kurgan) culture which was dominant both
east and west of the Dnipro at that time as a culture
in the process of being Indo-Europeanized according to
a "from the west" scenario.******


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