Re: Inrap Oct 08

From: tgpedersen
Message: 60984
Date: 2008-10-17

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
> At the beginning of October 08,
> conferences were held in Paris about neolithicization of Europe.
>
> Interventions have been recorded.
> Some are interesting because of their consequences about PIE.
>
>
http://www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Decouvrir/Conferences_et_colloques/p-2233-La_revolution_neolithique_dans_le_monde_br_Aux_ori.htm
>
> The recordings can be accessed
>
> I recommend to you :
>
> VE 03 : 9h30
> Climates in Europe
> Unfornately you cannot see the slides
> which makes it hard to follow.
>
> Ve 03 14h30
> Bellwood
> For Torsten : "Trade does not move languages" sic !!
> In English
>
> Ve 04 15 h
> Perles : two roads for Neolithic into Europe
>
> Sa 05 11h30
> Birth of state

Trade only moves a few chosen words, not whole languages. That only
happens when the traders discover they can't trust the local potentate
to safeguard trade and begin to police the markets themselves. But
then it isn't trade any more.


Torsten


Torsten