The Black Sea as Home

--- In cybalist@..., lsroute66@... wrote:

> 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
>
> et