Re: [tied] Re: Anatolia in 7500BC

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From: Gevork Kherlopian

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 7:30 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Anatolia in 7500BC

> We speak not of IE, but about proto IE who were in the area from 10 000 BC. Each IE language has its layers. The remnants of PIE are on the first strata which has been just started to be revealed. At least we know that most of the plant name of that has reached from that strata belong to that area. Mankind lived in that area, The Armenian Plateau, has been inhabited millions and millions years ago.

 

Inhabited by whom? Anatomically modern _Homo sapiens_ may be some 200,000 years old, but surely not millions and millions years old. The Dmanisi skulls from Georgia prove that _Homo ergaster/erectus_ had reached the Caucasus by ca. 1,700,000 years ago, but those early Eurasian hominins died out leaving no descendants. The modern humans of Eurasia represent a different (and much later) migration out of Africa. At any rate, when we speak of PIE we mean a time depth of some 6000-7500 years (depending on one's favourite IE origins scenario), not the vast scales you're talking about.

 

> The findings indicate the existence of neither mongoloids, nor negroids, but IE bone structures of the skull and body. At the same time the area, even before the Bronze age,  has been a point of interaction of many tribes not only of IE but of semitic, negroid, Caucasian even mongoloid origin.

 

What the heck is this supposed to mean? I know what IE word structure is, but what is IE bone structure? What does this strange mixture of linguistic and racial terms ("IE", "Semitic", "Negroid", etc.) mean to you?

 

Piotr