--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:>
> My view, derived from thoughts by Bomhard, is that the ancestor
> to IE was in Central Asia around 9000 BCE (which I refer to as
> ProtoSteppe and Bomhard refers to as Eurasiatic). If we're talking
> 15,000 BCE, only Nostratic existed - the ancestor of not only IE
> but also Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Gilyak, EskimoAleut,
> ChukchiKamchatkan, Dravidian, Sumerian, Kartvelian and AfroAsiatic
> as well.
>
> Hope that helps.
Sure, it helps Glen. I don't think IE begins with 4000 BCE or even
6000 BCE. It should be possible to identify, say, 200 semantic
clusters of the 'ancestor to IE'. Imagine a group of people, around
11,000 years ago (Younger Dryas), i.e. 9000 BCE in the Caucus or even
in Ga_ndha_ra not too far from Mehrgarh by boat. They should have had
set of words related to: navigating rivers (maybe, oxus, maybe the
ocean/gulf close to Sutkagendor or Elam), lapidary crafts, masonry,
mother imaging, canal irrigation (?) or harnessing river-flows for
drinking water storage systems and a fragmentary cultural terms
related to, say, festivities related to seasons, say, the summer
solstice or the winter solstice. Does Bomhard venture to identify
such sets of word of 'ancestor to IE' or 'eurasiatic'?