Re: A SinoTibetan-Vasconic Comparison: A very, very, very, very len

>I would say the S group are recognisably present from the time of the
>Aurignacian culture in Palestine. It moved north across the Balkans,
>onto the steppes and then East and Westward.

You mean it did a loop around the Black and Caspian Seas? I don't know about
this.

>Maybe T group (Gravetians) originated in the West in the
>Franco-Cantabrian region (where Basque is today) and spread Eastwards
>onto the Eurasian Steppes, replacing the earlier Dene C "S" languages
>that were in the region.

Not sure about this idea. How do the Gravetians get into the
Franco-Cantabrian region? Directly from Western Africa?

- gLeN


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