Re: PIE homeland in northwest India?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> > What support is there for a theory that I have come across, that

the

> > Indo-Europeans came from northwest India? The immediate scenario

is

> > that a bad drought in northwest India caused migrations, and

invasion

> > and immigration pressure on the remaining fertile land in
>
> This has been widely discussed, and by far the consensus is that

such a

> scenarios does not explain the linguistic evidence. For example,

there

> would have had to be several waves of emigration, not just one,

because of

> links that Indo-Iranian has to some IE languages and not others.
>
> Indian scholars link the theory, and wish it to be true, but it

does fly -

> in my opinion absurdly - against the evidence.
>
> Peter

I have always thought that the idea of a single migration from India
to be absurd, and that a number of migrations to be much more
likely. Why would this scenario be a problem ?