On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:53:17 -0000, "John <jdcroft@...>"
<jdcroft@...> wrote:

>Regarding Proto Celtic, Colin McEvedy's new "Penguin Atlas of Ancient
>History" has been recently updated and republished.
>
>He suggests that Proto-Indo-European is to be associated with the
>Eastern Tardenosian mesolithic cultures of Central and Eastern
>Europe. Thus he argues that Starecevo/Karanovo culture of the
>Balkans, the first culture to introduce a Neolithic culture into
>continental Europe, would have also been PIE. From this it would
>appear that Proto-Celto-Italic is to be associated with Danubian 1
>(LBK) and the cultures (eg Michelsberg and Vinca) that developed from
>it. This he would argue becomes the "Western" Branch of Indo-
>European, from which Celtic, Italic and Illyrian languages
>developed. Anatolian languages then develop out of the Gumelnitsa
>cultural base, which developed out of Karanovo, while the Eastern
>Group of Indo-European develops from Tripolyte and the Srendy Stog,
>and North Caspian eoneolithic of the steppes. Eastern PIE then he
>argues developes from the Pit Grave and Battle Axe cultures.
>
>This is an interesting theory.
>
>Thoughts anyone?

It's basically what was already in the first edition of McEvedy's
atlas. It made sense to me then (I read McEvedy long before I read
Renfrew), and it still does.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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