Re: [tied] Re: Anatolia in 7500BC

We speak not of IE, but about proto IE who were in the
area from 10 000 BC. Each IE language has its layers.
The remnants of PIE are on the first strata which has
been just started to be revealed. At least we know
that most of the plant name of that has reached from
that strata belong to that area. Mankind lived in that
area, The Armenian Plateau, has been inhabited
millions and millions years ago. The findings indicate
the existence of neither mongoloids, nor negroids, but
IE bone structures of the skull and body. At the same
time the area, even before the Bronze age, has been a
point of interaction of many tribes not only of IE but
of semitic, negroid, Caucasian even mongoloid origin.

--- x99lynx@... wrote:

> Glen wrote:
> <<The fact remains that there is no trace of
> IndoEuropean or ANY Steppe
> language to be found in Anatolia when writing first
> begins.>>
>
> QUICK CORRECTION: When writing "first begins" in
> Anatolia, it IS in a
> Indo-European language. I believe the earlier
> Assyrian texts (@1900) which
> apparently showed first evidence of IE (in Anatolia)
> were found in modern
> Syria. It may be asking too much on the other hand
> for the very first first
> writing, in Sumerian Mesopotamia, to evidence
> language elsewhere.
>
> Not that any of this is particularly probative of
> anything in 7500BC. But if
> one invokes the first writing as some kind of better
> evidence, then when we
> ACTUALLY have DIRECT AND VERIFIABLE evidence of any
> language in central or
> western Anatolia, it is IE. And since this is the
> first direct evidence of
> IE, one might question whether it is strictly
> appropriate to call it a
> "Steppe" language. (Except to the extent that the
> plateau of central Asia
> Minor for 1000's of years BC is classifiable as
> "steppic".)
>
> S.
>

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