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lsroute66@... wrote:
> > 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.
*****GK: BTW hasn't someone on this list already
started to talk about that, and even put up a
geographical representation on his website? I also am
following the new approaches with interest. There is
apparently no doubt that large areas of the old north
coast of the "Black Lake" were flooded in the mid-6th
millennium BC. At the moment though I am rather
skeptical whether anything sensational will be
discovered there. Some of my friends talked about
"temples" "cities" "lost civilizations" (I know you
don't, it's just a comment in passing reflective of an
enthusiasm on their part similar to that of the people
who thought the "Hall of Records" would be found under
the Sphinx)... The problem is that (so far anyway) no
material objects or evidence have/has come to light in
the cultures of the Crimea and further north which
suggest that something unusual or unexplained existed
in those flooded areas, no "queer imports"...*******
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve Long
> >
> > et
>
>
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