Re: [tied] Re: Mallory's New PIE Homeland?

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From: ehlsmith

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 1:18 AM

Subject: [tied] 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



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