Re: [tied] Re: Anatolia in 7500BC

One should also remember that before ca. 5600 BC the Black Sea was considerably smaller than it is now, and in particular the western coastal route from what is now the Crimea to Anatolia (whether entirely overland or by coast-hopping) was _very_ much shorter.

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] Re: Anatolia in 7500BC

Something else. If "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. Given the distances involved, Anatolia is really quite a bit closer to the shores of the Black Sea then to many of the areas mentioned in northern Russia, central Asia and certainly to Kamchatka and the Aleuts. And therefore I'm wondering if you haven't assigned pre-IndoTyrrhenian a more impressive role in say 6000BC than I would in hypothesizing for a modest little IE group in 7500BC.