Re: Swiftness of Indra

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

> Before going farther, the Macro-Caucasian people need to cement
> relationship between NE Caucasian, NW Caucasian, Burúshaski and
> Yenisseian. Then look at Sino-Tibetan, Na-Dené et al. As it looks
> now, it's too fly-by-night. Can anyone on the list judge
> Colarusso's competency in this?

As I mentioned in my latest post, John Colarusso has postulated his
own "Pontic" hypothesis, i.e. the idea that Indo-European and
Northwest Caucasian are related at the phylum level. The time depth of
his "Proto-Pontic" would be perhaps 12,000 years before the present.
Colarusso's taxonomic hypothesis is, however, not widely accepted. At
any rate, Colarusso is not a proponent of a "Macro-Caucasian" super-
phylum à la Bengtson.

Francesco