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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > Will the following surmise have an effect on the spread of PIE
> > languages prior to Eurasian de-glaciation, say, 10000 carbon-14
> > years ago?>
> No, because they would not have been PIE languages at that stage.
PIE> should be seen roughly 5000 - 4000 BC; that's 3000 - 4000
years after your> date.
Thanks, Peter.
If there were areas or corridors, say, south and east of Caspian sea
which were not covered with ice-sheets, there should have been
palaeo-lithic and perhaps, chalcolithic settlements, as evidenced by
the finds at Mehergarh.
If PIE is dated to circa 5000 BCE, what would be the areal situation
of substratum languages which evolved into PIE? Have there been any
studies to gloss the substratum words which might have constituted
the parole between de-glaciation and ca. 5000 BCE?