--- In cybalist@..., x99lynx@... wrote:> Something
else. "IndoTyrrhenian" was located just north of the Black Sea
> at this time, it actually had the ideal highway to reach Anatolia.
The > recent evidence that the western length of both American
continents were > settled by coast-hopping sea-goers in a relatively
short time and by10,000BC > suggests that in comparison the steppes
without horses would be the hard way > to travel. The evidence that
Near Eastern and Mediterranean lithic styles > had appeared in the
Crimea in the late mesolithic could suggest that there > was an
efficient coast-hugging water route across the Black Sea that could
> also carry some dialect of IndoTyrrhenian back to the shores of
Anatolia > quite easily. An alternative would be that the journey
south by water was > made earlier by some common IE/Uralic ancestor.
Fascinating.
The coast-hugging movements are apparent also in Bha_rata, from the
Gulf of Khambat (ca. 8000 BCE), hugging the coastline of Saura_s.t.ra
(with sites such as Padri, Prabhas Patan, Dwa_raka) through Gulf of
Kutch (with sites such as Dholavira, Surkotada). Such movements also
explains why the Vindhya mountains were no barrier for interactions
between Southern peninsula and north-western parts, say, in the
Sarasvati-Sindhu River Basins.
Coast-hugging movements continue intensely -- across Meluhha, Magan
and Dilmun, through the Persian Gulf -- during the early- and pre-
Harappan periods as explained by Kenoyer.
Steve, what is the evidence for Near Eastern lithic styles?