george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
> *****GK: My information differs from yours. While
> "Danubian" influence on B/D becomes progressively more
> noticeable up to its eventual absorption into
> Trypilia, "the very concept of pottery" arrived not
> from Cris=Koros but from the East, (most of the very
> earliest "pots" having clear analogies to the cultures
> of the Crimea, Azov,...
This brings up something that hardly ever appear among the arrows
you find on all the maps that show the spread of IE languages.
American archaeologists have discovered strong evidence that N and S
America were settled not by land travelers but by sea - that is by
coastal travel. This was 13,000+ years ago and it took relatively
few generations (maybe even less than 1000 years) to settle the coast
from Alaska to present-day Peru.
Mallory and even Renfrew (who should know better) both treat the
Black Sea as if it were a wall instead of the best possible highway.
In fact, might not the Black Sea have been the shortest distance
between Anatolia, the Ukraine and the Danube?
Jeremy Rutters, the Dartmouth archaeologist, made the comment at the
Anatolian Conf at Richmond last year, that the Black Sea and new
(underwater) digs that will follow the Flood theory may change
everything.
Because one thing about all theories is that they fall, perhaps 50
years from now, people will be talking about a *PIE homeland not in
Anatolia or the Steppes, but instead in a ring around the Black Sea.
Regards,
Steve Long
etc