>About the Black Sea Flood. This site is interesting, and adds fuel to >the
>current discussion. [...]
Wow! Good call. The first site is seething with info. I'm going to have to
examine this for a while. The second site makes me skeptical. A mystery
plate? Symbols? PreFlood artifact? Not so sure. Anyone else have bad
feelings about that site?
Anyways, I also just had a brainwave that should have been somewhat apparent
to me before but there are so many details to the arrival of IE, the Black
Sea Flood, cultural links, etc that it's easy to loose track.
I'm starting to think more about the trans-caucasian cultural expansion
northwards that evidently existed around 7000 BCE from the South Caspian and
thereabouts. Now I was looking at my photocopied version of Mallory's
linguistic map during the third millenium BCE and I noticed how closely
packed Hattic, Hurrian and Urartian are placed. They also seem to hug the
central to eastern Anatolian area.
I should have realised from my earlier suspicions on linguistic affiliation.
Could the cultural expansion from the Caucasus be NEC splitting from
HurroUrartian? The idea is that HU and NEC are more closely related,
followed by a further Hattic relationship. This was the sense I got just by
examining the languages. Hattic also happens to be the most westward
language of them all. An eastern origin would seem to make sense.
If this holds, the South Caspian and Caucasus area is not only the original
homeland of this small group of Caucasian languages (seperate from NWC based
north of the Caucasus), but also the source of the "cultural link" prior to
the arrival of IE. In fact, this may be the first time NEC and NWC shook
hands, linguistically speaking, giving us a pretty accurate date of the
beginning of their mutual interference.
Thoughts, just thoughts... What harm can they do? :)
- gLeN
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