Re: [tied] Re: Europeans descend from Basques...

John:

>Glen, why do you have Pre PIE moving in a direction against the
>general flow of cultures moving from a south west [...]

I've answered that question already ad nauseum. Culture and
language are independent entities and linguistic arguements are
more paramount here... You have no convincing linguistic arguements
to support the opposite view.

>Given that Pre PIE and Tyrrhenian in your schema are related, and
>given that historically Tyrrhenian was located in the Mediterranean
>and Aegean area, does it not make better sense for a movement from
>the Aegean and Mediterranean into the Balkans, with the general tide of
>demic movements 7-5000 BCE, rather than against them?

However, if the Mediterranean was the centre of busy trade during
the Neolithic, wouldn't we find various peoples, cultures and
languages congregating to this area? Of course then, when all
is said and done and history dawns, everybody's huddled in and
around the Balkans as if pulled by an immense gravity well that
no longer exists.


- gLeN


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