From: g
Message: 17684
Date: 2003-01-16
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:How about the Takla-Makan mummies a.k.a. Tarim mummies
>
>> From: <richard.wordingham
>> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
>
>>>Are any of the plausible or popular urheimats consistent with the
>>>first PIE speakers often having blond hair and blue eyes? This
>>>needs some thought, because of climate changes.
>>
>> What's the evidence that they _often_ had them?
>
>I didn't think there was any! My first thought was that in all the
>plausible and popular homelands - Black Sea environs, Danube,
>Pakistan - blue eyes and blond hair would be uncommon. However,
>before I posted, I wondered if ancient climatic conditions might have
>made them more common, so I softened my denial to a question.
>Unfortunately, the motivation behind the question has been totally
>misinterpreted.
>
>Richard.