Steve:
>And again, how would linguistics alone help Renfrew -- or anyone
>for that matter -- in deciding whether an ancestor of PIE was in
>Anatolia in 7500 BC?
Let's put aside the French Canadians for a moment and deal
specifically with PIE. The fact is that Indo-European is a
linguistic construct. Archaeology has very, very little to
do with telling us about a language. Therefore, it's mostly
the burden of linguists to determine whether any language
was in Anatolia in 7500 BCE.
(PS: IE IS NOT DIRECTLY FROM ANATOLIA!!!! ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!)
- gLeN
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