Re: Mallory's New PIE Homeland?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, x99lynx@... wrote:

> Sorry for the late posting.
>
> I WROTE:
> Renfrew puts "the IE Homeland" in Anatolia (he's not the first - V.

Gordon

> Childe, who was the first major scholar to put PIE in the Ukraine,

changed

> his mind later and put it in Anatolia, too).  Mallory puts it in

the "Pontic

> region" which turns out to be the Ukraine.
>
> "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote (Tue Feb 11, 2003)
> <<Actually Mallory places the IE homeland in a broad pathway

extending from

> the Atlantic to the Pontic regions.  Anyhow, that's the map he

created when

> he spoke at Stanford last year.>>
>
> THIS is big news! I haven't seen anything else about this. Is it

published

> anywhere? This would seem to be in fact incorporating a bit of

Renfrew.

>
> Does anyone know anything more about this?
>
> Steve Long

Sounds suspiciously like a map of his view of the dispersal of IE
languages into Europe rather than of the PIE homeland per se, IMHO.

Ned Smith