Re: [tied] GLEN AND ANATOLIA IN 7500BC

Hi Michael and Steve

Re: The below

If you are interested in looking at the Mesolithic Archaeological and
linguistic connections have a look at the the files section of this
list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/files/MApmesolithic.ppt

Regards

John

> Micheal,
> I suspect (only suspect, mind you) that the actual scenario could

have been

> something suggested by Miguel Carrasquer Vidal, who is also a

member of this

> list. Some form of Pre-PIE (an ancestor of the reconstructed PIE)

moved from

> Anatolia into the Balkans and the Danube and Ukraine, and then a

reverse

> migration brought the Anatolian IE languages back into Anatolia.
>
> Anatolia seems to be in a geographical position where all kinds of

languages

> are always coming and going. In history -- some 4000 years --

there have

> been dozens -- and many have disappeared . There's no reason to

think that

> prehistory any different.
>
> This makes statements like <<Hattic is more autochthonous than

IE,...>>

> quite irrelevant of course. But the fact is that there is no way

of knowing

> -- short of the highly improbable discovery of written records --

whether IE

> languages originated in Anatolia. My point was there is nothing to

disprove

> it. But there is nothing to prove it either.
>
> Steve Long