From: ehlsmith
Message: 13891
Date: 2002-06-19
--- In cybalist@..., "jdcroft" <jdcroft@...> wrote:
...[snip]...
> Sorry Glen, the Mediterranean during the neolithic was not a well,
> sucking in peoples. Rather it was a fountain out of which area
they
> came. Your Indo-European and Tyrrhenian people seem to have been
> amazing people in that they could move in the opposite direction
that
> everyone else was going.
John- what about the contention of Olson that the genetic data show a
continual background level of influx of new people into Europe
between first settlement by homo sapiens and the arrival of neolithic
farmers from the Middle East? That background level supposedly
contributed 60% of the present European genome, whereas the large
demic movements- first settlement and spread of agriculturalists-
contributed only 10% and 22% respectively.
I'm not taking sides on the issue of whether the precursors of IE
and/or Tyrrhenian actually did move into Europe on that time, but the
data would seem to suggest that they well could have. The peoples who
contributed that 60% brought some languages with them obviously. Why
could it not have been those?
Regards,
Ned Smith