Re: Anatolia as PIE's "embarkation spot" (WasRe: Re: Re[4]: [tied]

It would work if one assumes IE expansion is
synonymous with the spread of agriculture

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No

PIE spread as soon as it could
that is to say
After
the last Würm Ice-age finished

No need to wait for agriculture
to expand
or
wait for horses...

Arnaud

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If so, wouldn't one expect something similar to the W?
Perhaps there were early offshoots of IE there which
were absorbed or which we see as IE-like vocabulary in
Basque and Etruscan
But I'm just speculating

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Cf. Basque sorro "cultivated field"
Much like *H2arH3
and Semitic zara&

Arnaud

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