Incorporating from: A SinoTibetan-Vasconic Comparison: A very,
very,very,very lengthy letter.
John Croft inserts:
> The diffusion of solid wheeled vehicles across the Caucasas at such >an
early time, could also be evidence of the PIE-Etruscan culture zone >at such
an early phase. There was a fair bit of early >Transcaucasian movement from
Mesolithic times onwards. It also >enables the proto-Tyrhennians to have
been the IE people that >Renfrew identified as coming out of Anatolia.
Solves a lot of problems >in my view. Whadd'ya say Glen?
Glen Gordon defends
>> No. It only creates many more problems. The IE can only be from a >>more
northerly locale.
Rex:
Thats in the first line of the theory..from the North..but to get to the
Aegean..and..Tuscany eventually as "Etruscan"..I am simply saying
VIA Anatolia, and I (not John) am challenging the necessity of a separate
"brancing" from N/NE Pontic for Etruscan..rather a later subbrancing of a
single wave through Anatolia..From N/NE Pontic.
> There is no possibility that IE spread from Anatolia, nor
> IndoEtruscan.
Why can't you mentally insert Anatolia between N/NE Pontic and the Aegean
and Tuscany? As a single road to both?
>With this theory, the explanation of IE-Uralic connections
>crashes down in ruin with no alternative hypothesis to take its place.
There is no threat to IE-Uralic connections. I am not arguing IE origin,
I am arguing Anatolia was the dispersal platfrom for lang/tech intrusive
from the North into the Aegean and Greek mainland.
> Perhaps the archaeological data is being interpreted wrong. If >Anatolia
is a source of innovations, we should expect some spread of >cultural or
technological features FROM Anatolia INTO the North >Pontic despite a
population movement outwards from the area, no?
No. I can't speak for John, but I don't think he is suggesting that. I'm
ceratinly not. Reread my original...a wave from the north, bringing (much
with IE) through Anatolia to spread further.
La Revedere;
Rex H. McTyeire
Bucharest, Romania
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