Re: [tied] The IE homeland

From: george knysh
Message: 13443
Date: 2002-04-23

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Anything more specific, George? Why is that less
> likely than Yamna doing the Indo-Europeanisation
> "from the east" (if that's the alternative)?

*****GK: Because in the east->west option you have at
least plenty of archaeological evidence to support it
(even if some of this has provoked heated debate
verging upon denial or annihilating ideological
reinterpretation), whereas in the west->east option
you have nothing at all, at that particular moment in
time. Which is why I spoke of "invisible" factors. BTW
I can just imagine what would be the reaction in
"Westernizing" circles if some of us "Easterners" were
to come up with "invisible" factors to explain our
preferred east->west movement.(:=)))******
>
> Piotr

*****GK: I was just getting ready to post a few
reflections (as promised earlier) concerning the
integration into our discussions of archaeological
material which seemed to me to strengthen the
admittedly limping 1989 east->west "Mallory scenario",
when lo and behold I received a copy of V. Kul'baka's
latest opus, entitled "Ancient Indo-Europeans of
Ukraine in the light of recent archaeological
research" (in Ukr.), Mariupol' Institute of
Humanistics/Mariupol' Archaeological Expedition:
Mariuopol' 2002. 145 pp. I'd like to take a few days
to review this for possibly pertinent information. In
any case I'll get back to the issue shortly.******
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: george knysh
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 6:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] The IE homeland
>
>
>
> *****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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