MCV:
>But I strongly disagree with Renfrew in calling the language of these
>Anatolian farmers that crossed over to Europe "Proto-Indo-European". It's
>way too early for that. A better term for now would be
>"Proto-Indo-Tyrrhenian".
How 'bout just "Language X"? I do hope we aren't treading on
that Out-of-Anatolia hypothesis again. Neither IE nor IndoTyrrhenian
could possibly come from Anatolia because to accept this would deny
the close similarities apparent between IndoTyrrhenian and Uralic
families. These fundamental similarities in morphology cannot be
explained away by casual areal influence either. We are forced
to conclude an easterly origin of IndoEuropean from Central Asia
in the remote past in order to account for this fact.
- love gLeN
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