Re: [tied] Re: kinship systems

>If you have it any earlier than 12000 BCE Glen, then they cannot have
>been a mesolithic culture. We are back into the big game hunter
>world of the late Ice Age, with no "broad spectrum" hunter-gatherers
>anywhere except in Africa, Australia and South East Asia.

Many accept 15000 BCE as the date of Nostratic (including AfroAsiatic)
because of the many differences between the language groups involved. A
shallow timespan like 12000 BCE doesn't work as well. The latter date would
be that of Eurasiatic as defined on my Nostratic linguistic tree.

>Altaic does have many but distant similarities to Altaic. That is
>because.

Erh, you mean "URALIC does have many...", right? At any rate, it's too
obvious you're ignorant of these language groups. No one could say this with
seriousness unless they were in the dark on the subject. Uralic and Altaic
have many similarities and to say that they are seperated by some 8000 years
is crazy. This is merely an amateurish theory without justification for its
added complexities, archaeological or linguistical, let alone logical.

>Glen, save your alien abductions for getting Semitish to be
>neighbours of the PIE at the dates you suggest.
>
>Are you reading what I am saying or are you inventing "straw men" to
>beat up on?

Sorry, I don't do aliens. And if you would quit grasping at straws like
this, maybe I wouldn't have so much material to build these straw men.

- gLeN

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