[tied] Re: Mallory's New PIE Homeland?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Michael J Smith <lookwhoscross-
eyednow@...> wrote:
.....

> ANd I've never understood why Indo-European groups are always

considered

> latecomers. For example, Celtic speakers in the British Isles are
> usually not considered to have come until no earlier than 1200-1000

B.C..

> WHy not earlier? If speakers of non-IE
> language groups could have been far spread geographically at an

early

> date, why not IE speakers?

I'm no expert, so maybe some of the more knowledgable members will
correct me, but I believe that there is a growing acceptance of the
fact that Celtic may have reached the British Isles much earlier than
previously thought. Renfrew certainly believed so, and even if most
linguists don't accept his dates, don't some now push the arrival of
Celtic back at least another millenium earlier or so?

Ned Smith