Glen wrote
> Dennis to John:
> >Why did the Semites have to come from Egypt?
>
> I will put forth a long personal critique of John's admittedly
beautiful
> maps soon... Don't fret.
Awaiting with bated breath!
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Glen wrote
> (Because Ubaid was Sumerian-speaking and part of the general
Nostratic
> language area that begat Kartvelian as well...)
Sorry Glen, Ubaid at first was far from Sumerian speaking. In fact
Sumerians only entered into the Urspracht realm when Ubaidians began
to trade down the Persian Gulf to Oman for Copper. At the end of the
Ubaidian period, the Sumerians decamped from Bahrein en masse for
Southern Iraq.
The split of Nostratic into its daughter languages I thought you had
agreed was definitively a mesolithic and not a chalcolithic-late
neolithic phenomenon. Kartvellian had long since split from
Nostratic.
I would be interested in how you see Nostratic moving from Africa and
onto the Steppe, through what regions and via the agency of what
cultures.
Regards
John