>But as you say so rightly, you cannot equate culture with language.
>Except... the Na Dene peoples probably got into North America at the
>time of the melting of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. To have a Nostratic
>in Kamchatka so early means that Nostratic must have begun its
>expansion considerably before Natufian and the Zagros cultures, and
>that means before sub-Neolithic.
John, I really do wish you could read and UNDERSTAND at the same time. Let
me explain this to you more precisely because you obviously are completely
ignorant of the Nostratic hypothesis as a whole.
Again, NigerK is not Nostratic, it is part of the larger _DeneCaucasian_
grouping in my view. Nostratic was spoken circa 15,000 BCE somewhere in
Anatolia or thereabouts. It had split into three branches: Kartvelian,
AfroAsiatic and Eurasiatic. Eurasiatic split into Sumerian, Elamite,
Dravidian and finally Steppe. By the time ProtoSteppe had arrived to the
steppes, it was already 9,000 BCE (as Allan Bomhard has already hypothesized
based on his own linguistic and archaeoligical research).
Can you remember when the Na-Dene crossed into North America, John? I don't
think that the Steppe speakers, from which ChuckKam. would eventually come
from, could in any way have presented any obstacle whatsoever. ChuckKam
didn't even exist yet before the NaDene had already crossed. NaDene was
already far to the northeast of ProtoSteppe. Please start learning about the
REAL Nostratic hypothesis, John. Your errors are becoming painful to read.
- gLeN
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