[tied] Re: Europeans descend from Basques...

From: jdcroft
Message: 13837
Date: 2002-06-15

Glen wrote

> >3. Piotr Giasowski for one favours a Balkan homeland for IE.
>
> I know. I've come to that consensus as well for the
> most part. However, I don't agree that IE was always
> there. I believe that it slowly migrated to that region
> between 7000 and 5000 BCE from a more northeasterly
> position, personally.

Glen, why do you have Pre PIE moving in a direction against the
general flow of cultures moving from a south west to north east
direction, out of the region, with the spread of farming. What was
it that equipped PIE with the power to swim against the tide? They
don't appear to have been culturally better equipped, in fact it was
the opposite.

Given that Pre PIE and Tyrrhenian in your schema are related, and
given that historically Tyrrhenian was located in the Mediterranean
and Aegean area, does it not make better sense for a movement from
the Aegean and Mediterranean into the Balkans, with the general tide
of demic movements 7-5000 BCE, rather than against them?

Puzzled.

Warm regards

John