Re: Caucasian Languages in India (was: Who can explain the compariso

> My instinct is that most large language groups spread
> out after the development of agriculture.
> The exceptions, of course are mainly areas where
> agriculture never arrived until recently --South
> Africa. And where a specialized technology performed a
> role analogous to agriculture --the adaptation to
> Arctic life among the inuit and the introduction of
> the dingo and the boomerang into Australia about
> 4-6,000 years ago which probably accounts for the
> spead of Pama-Nyungan.
> But it's just my intuition. Someone else will have to
> back it up or discredit it with evidence
>

I think Peter Bellwood introduced that as a theory.


Torsten