Re: Indoeuropeans vs. Uralians: pigs, honey and salt

David S·nchez <davius_sanctex@...>:
<<I think the three major hypothesis concerning IE Urheimat are: 
(1) Hypothesis of Childe and M. Gimbutas.
(2) Hypothesis of C. Renfrew.  
(3) Hypothesis of Gramkelidze and Ivanov.>>

You might include a variant of Renfrew (and possibly Gramkelidze-Ivanov) that
skips past Anatolia and the Near East, and hypothesizes a Balkan or Danubian
"origin point." Such an origin has been proposed by a number of scholars,
including Bosch-Gimpera, Colin McEvedy and I.M. Diadonov, and some on this
list. (What I think it needs to truly put it on the map is a good fat J.P.
Mallory-type coffee table book called something like "The Real
Indo-Europeans" with lots of footnotes and pictures of aurochs and wild
horses and Oetzi-type people. (BTW, sometimes Renfrew seems amenable to this
modified approach, allowing that Anatolia might be "pre-proto.")

It's interesting to note, also, that V. Gordon Childe himself changed his
mind in the end and endorsed an Anatolian "homeland" for IE languages (if not
PIE.)

S. Long