Thank you very much, Glen, for this summary of your view.
Some questions (excuse my ignorance):
- If I understand you well, IYO the Bandkeramiker must have spoken
Tyrrhenian? Is Hittite a Tyrrhenian or an IE language IYO?
- At that time 7000-6000 BC, the Balkan was Anatolia, since the Bosporus &
the Black Sea did not yet exist?
- Could the replacement of "Semitish" by Tyrrhenian-speaking people have
something to do with Noah's flood? (when was that? 5300 BC?)
>There are some other very suspicious
>roots like *teuros "bull" (*Tawru-) as well.
I just read in my newspaper about a recent paper in Nature by Dublin etc.:
our European cattle did not descend from the indigenous Bos primigenius (ie,
it was not domesticated here), but from cattle introduced here a few
thousands of years ago from the Middle-East.
Marc