From: John Croft
Message: 1666
Date: 2000-02-23
> >I would say the S group are recognisably present from the time of theWrote
> >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'tknow about
> this.This is clearly what the archaeological evidence seems to show. At one
> >Maybe T group (Gravetians) originated in the West in theGlen suggested
> >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 theNope, they seem to have developed over a fairly long period from an
> Franco-Cantabrian region? Directly from Western Africa?