[tied] Re: From words to dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or phyl

>
> > >> "The consensus tree also shows evidence of a period of
> > >> rapid divergence giving rise to the Italic, Celtic,
> > >> Balto-Slavic and perhaps Indo-Iranian families that is
> > >> intriguingly close to the time suggested for a possible
> > >> Kurgan expansion. "
> >
> > > I think you are reading what you want to read in this
> > > sentence.
> >
> > No, you are. Or rather, you are ignoring the parts that you
> > don't like.


> I am reading it as it is written "intriguingly close to the time
> suggested for a possibleKurgan expansion. " To the time, the TIME
> suggested by Kurgan expansion NOT the Kurgan expansion themselves.

Why would the authors find it intriguing that the rapid divergence was
close in time but remote in location to the possible Kurgan expansion?


Torsten