Re: [tied] No person and number endings in IE Nordwestblock?

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From: tgpedersen

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:18 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] No person and number endings in IE Nordwestblock?

>   I did not say that Nordic physical types were the substrate, and
autochthonous. That is what you are saying, is that not right?
>
But in case you asked me I think the 'Nordic physical type'
is 'autochthonous' (ie. got there first) and the invading IE-
speakers were not. The first brachycephalic skulls in Scandinavia
are found in Neolithic graves.

 

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Patrick:

 

Hopefully, we have found a language in which to discuss these matters.

 

But, are not they earliest dolichocephalic skulls gracile, and relative smal — implyng to me a Mediterranean rather than a Nordic physical type?

 

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>   Rather, I think it likelier that Nordic physical types speaking
a non-IE language invaded Northern territory already inhabited by
PIE-speaking ethnics.
>

You are not the only one to think that. I don't.

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Patrick:

 

My best guess is that Mediterraneans  speaking PAA or similar were succeeded by Caucasians speaking Basque or similar followed by Nordics speaking Uralic or similar.

 

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