From: george knysh
Message: 17093
Date: 2002-12-10
>******GK: But what discernible archaeological cultures
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> From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
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> [tied]_Does_Koenraad_Elst_Meet_Hock�s_Challenge?
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> > *****GK: I don't see how one can demonstrate on
> > archaeological grounds that Balto-Slavic and
> > especially Indo-Iranian (+Nuristani) expanded from
> a
> > central area identified with the territory
> occupied by
> > LBK.
>
> Well they didn't. LBK ended a long time before these
> two branches arose. The eastward diffusion of IE was
> certainly a long-term process. I'd date the Satem
> shift to around 3200-3000 BC, and the
> Balto-Slavic/Indo-Iranian split a few centuries
> later. The Satem innovation should probably be
> correlated with the quick territorial expansion of a
> speech community: the change was a radical one and
> it led to the isolation of a few distantly related
> groups such as (pre-)Tocharian, "Palaeo-Bangani" and
> (pre-)Greek in the east. A phenomenon of this kind
> could be expected to leave clear traces in the
> archaeological record./..../
>
> My tentative guess is that the spread of the
> Globular Amphora culture can be connected with the
> growth of Proto-Satem.