Re: [tied] Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn.

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Thanks,
I knew as much as the fact that he'd simplistically conflated the arrival of agriculture with IE. My opposition was simply on the basis that there was far too many language groups in ancient Anatolia in the first place, with simply no room to squeeze in our language's Urheimat! I've always suspected Bessarabia or the Volhyn. What do people here think about the Cucuteni Tripolye in linguistic terms? Or maybe the earlier Bug-Dnestr foragers?

Ben

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From : markodegard@...
To : cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Date : 03 September 2001 21:45:35
Subject : [tied] Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn.
It's Colin, Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn.

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>> >Apart from all this Aryan indigenism nonsense [!] I was intrigued
>to see Renfrew's name pop up here. I wonder could anyone tell me the
>nature of his mistaken assumptions? I'm an archaeologist y'see, and
>have often criticised Renfrew's Anatolian model, without being too
>aware of the precise details.
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>> >Cheers!
>> >Beinn Mac an Gheairr
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>If one is to accept that language families such as Indo-European
>exist, one has to accept the methodology used to prove such 'facts'.
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>I am not competent to accurately outline the 'facts' of the PIE
>homeland, but they rest mainly on lexical items combined with
>archaeological data; the picture you get is not of settled
>agriculturalists pioneering the European Bronze Age, but of an
>eneolithic/chalcolithic folk who lived mainly by stockbreeding. There
>is a near-universal consensus among those who really understand the
>issues that an Anatolian homeland is *impossible*.
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>Vae victis.

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