From: Alexander Stolbov
Message: 1191
Date: 2000-01-27
> [John]:"40,000 years ago" and "Nostratic languages" are hardly compatible things, are
> I know the genetic evidence shows two human movements out of Africa.
> One very early one was kept out of the upper Middle East by the
> presence of the Neanderthaloids. They probably moved along the Arabian
> litorial into India and South East Asia by 90,000 years BP. The
> widespread AN-AustroAsiatic-Daic group, Papuan and Australian languages
> probably all come from this family, but separated so long ago that they
> show no connections today. Then 40,000 years ago the Aurignancian (and
> later the Gravetian) cultural people, moving from the Middle East into
> Ice Age Eurasia carried the Nostratic languages out of Africa.
>Very interesting. Is it possible to present these views as the following scheme
> On genetic grounds, these two waves seem to have more in common with
> the Capoid/Cushitic group rather than the Pigmoid, West African
> Niger-Kordofanian or the Nilo-Saharan. On genetic grounds these seem
> to have separated from the human genome earlier than either of the
> other two waves.