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Alexander writes:
Mark:
<<What's left is Balto-Slavic: immediately south of them, spread from
Kiev to
Samara, are the Indo-Iranians (and no doubt a number of other linguistic
groups).

Is there is problem seeing the Balto-Slavic homeland as occupying the
northern
edge of the PIE homeland? Or seeing the Indo-Iranians as long-time
stay-at-homes
too?>>

Please correct me if I'm wrong:
You think that future Balto-Slavic and Aryans for a long time were one
group and
this group occupied simultaneously both forest and steppe zone regions?
Do I understand you right?

Alexander
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Hi Alexander:

If you start going back far enough (5000 BCE or earlier) its likely
that what is forest zone today, is not what was forest zone then. The
earth began to recover from the last ice age 10,000-8,000 BCE. Things
got warmer and wetter, until they reached a climax circa 5000 BCE. The
earth was even wetter and warmer then, than now. So it's likely the
forests, which began recovering 8,000 -7,000 BCE reached a climax in
5,000 BCE, and then began to receed, accompanied by man's intrusion
into them.

The increasingly worstening climate from 5,000 BCE to 8,000BCE and the
placement of residual ice sheets, morraine fields (stripped and totally
barren soils)could be one problem with pushing IE origins too far back,
or too far north. But its not my field, you people know a lot more than
I do about it.

Regards
Brent