Re: Pontic to Etruscan

"Alexander Stolbov" in part, responding to Glen, adds

> The question -
> where and when did they parted?

And that remains the essence of the difference in the roads Glen and I are
using to get to Etruscan.

> If I understand you right, your answer is:
> Tyrrhenian went from the North Pontic area c. 4500 BC when PIE stayed

there.

> I'm afraid some difficulties with chronology and archaeology can arise

here.

I agree.

> What do you (and other list members) think about the variant with the
> parting of PIE and Proto-Thyrrhenian somewhere in South Caucasus c. 6000

BC?

I am not convinced this parting led to Etruscan.

> Thereafter a well traced way leads PIE to lower Dnieper (the Sura and then
> Sredny Stog cultures with domestic horses).

Can you explain this a bit more completely..particularly dates and
domesticated horses?

> On the other hand, in the Early
> Bronze Age (c. 3500 BC) a massive peoples movement from Eastern Anatolia

to

> the Aegean region is known. Early Helladic, Cycladic and Minoan cultures

can

> be results of this movements.

This is, of course, what I am leaning on as the defining movement, which I
am calling Pelasgic; from which Etruscan eventually emerged, with almost no
Tyrrhenian impact. But..I am looking at it solely historically, with
interpretations of the classical writers. I am waiting for you linguists to
convince me Etruscan must be a result of a separate parting of IE or PIE
movements, or even that IndoEtruscan, Tyrrhenian, or other Etruscan related
branchings from N/NE Pontic existed.

La Revedere;
Rex H. McTyeire
Bucharest, Romania
<rexbo@...>