Re: [TIED] Re: Khoisanid

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From: John Croft

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Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 4:56 PM

Subject: [TIED] Re: Khoisanid

 

Was it really that rapid? And what do you mean by synchronous? From what I've read, it might have looked more like gradual diffusion across the ice-free zone of Europe, starting around 45-40 ky BP. The oldest Iberian sites are at least a couple of millennia younger than the Balkan ones, and the number of foraging newcomers involved in the Aurignacian "conquest" seems impossible to estimate with any accuracy. Cultural homogeneity (such as is visible in the Aurignacian assemblage) may have nothing to do with language. The Australian microlithic tool "revolution" produced a lot of cultural uniformity in a linguistically variegated area.

 

Piotr

 

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John wrote:

 

There was probably one exception to the rule - the coming of the Aurignacians 35,000 BCE was sufficiently rapid, and sufficiently synchronous to have been the result of a single language family if not a single tongue. Certainly their cultural assemblage suggests a
degree of cultural uniformity not seen before or since with Homo sapiens sapiens cultures.