Re: Cumbre Vieja

--- In cybalist@..., "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
wrote:

> > > (d) The excavation of Atlantis (or its dependent settlements)

has

> > > already begun. I think it's where we've long thought it was
> > (Thera?),
> > > and the culture looks Minoan.
> > Yes, the culture on Thera looks Minoan. Have they found

inscriptions

> > to the effect that "This is Atlantis"?
>
> Would a faked tablet to that effect be a noble lie? :)
>
> > > (e) Why would tsunami damage force people to emigrate long
> > distances
> > > other than as pirates?
> > I think their island slipping from under their feet would make
> > anybody emigrate. Haven't you watched Superman?
> > But seriously, Plato places Atlantis just outside of the pillars

of

> > Hercules. There's no telling how much of Canaria already

disappeared

> > under the waves.
>
> I think an Atlantic Atlantis would have no relevance to Indo-

European

> languages.
>
> Richard.

Depends on how seriously you take Plato's timing. Which I won't then,
since everyone else don't take him seriously at all. You'd then have
a Afro-Asiatic speaking trading island involved also in round-Africa
trade (Nusantao?) spewing Austronesian loan words to Afro-Asiatic and
Indo-European alike.

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/austric.html

Here are some genetic markers:

http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/AJHG_2002_v70_p1197-1214.pdf

And I'm still, in spite of Piotr's efforts, puzzled by the t-r-
"three" words in West Africa.

http://www.zompist.com/niger.htm
http://www.zompist.com/benu.htm
http://www.zompist.com/nilo.htm ? (Kordofanian Proper)

Torsten