Re: Glen's reconstructions Archaeology & Genetics

>It seems that Zarzian may have been the proto-Steppe and Proto->Eurasian
>after all. I found a website that critically examined the >"Aryan Invasion
>of India" hypothesis, and critiqued the view that the
>Indo-European Urheimat was Northern India....

Why should anyone bother to critique such a flawed view?

>[...] it suggested that there were connections via Kobystan Zarzian >to the
>Steppes north of the Caucasas, so this gives a later >connection than
>Kebaran.

I know that there were Early IE trading contacts going on with the south.
This is the direction of most if not all Semitic loanwords into Early/Middle
IE. Is this what you mean?

>Perhaps the Boreal connection can be made to work with a movement >north to
>the arctic and spreading east and west from there. >Difficult but just
>possible.

The Boreal subgrouping must have been very northern based on the spread of
these languages like Yukaghir (known to be very close to Uralic but yet a
_siberian_ language), ChuckKam and EskAleut. The above is precisely what
must have happened.

- gLeN


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