Thinking of the issue of the Urheimat, I thought you folks may be
interested in the following
Linguistic Aspects of the Indo-European Urheimat Question
by Koenraad Elst, Leuven (Belgium), December 21, 1998
at
http://sarasvati.simplenet.com/aryan/koenraad2.html
The fact that such a reasoned account can be made for such a
non-strandard location makes me realise how much current locations
suggested are based on some pretty flimsy arguing and a process where
people come to agree on such narrow evidence.
An interesting argument (I found it whilst searching for web
information on the Zarzian culture as a source of Proto IE. Does
anyone know anything on the work of Bernard Sergent in PIE research?
Regards
John