Re: [tied]_Does_Koenraad_Elst_Meet_Hock´s_Challenge?

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

> I assume, then,
> that after the fast initial "inflation" of IE the
> further progress eastwards consisted in infiltration
> rather than massive colonisation. The linguistic
> fossils of that stage are the small non-Satem groups
> "lost" in the east.

*****GK: That is of course possible. But why could
these fossils not represent a movement of pre-Satem
IEuropeans from the "central area" postulated by the
Pontic/Caspian hypothesis?*****

> Yes, I keep my eye on something like that as an
> alternative to my favourite scenario. If the Balkan
> hypothesis fails, the Pontic region will be by far
> the most serious homeland candidate. (BTW, have you
> got any up-to-date references as regards the dating
> of the earliest CW sites?)

****GK: Unfortunately not in calibrated radiocarbon
terms. But I'll keep my eyes open. The evidence at
this point is still of a "relative" nature, viz. that
the earliest CW sites in the west have both Late TRYP
and Funnel Beaker imports, and the next stage== GA
imports.*****



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