From: george knysh
Message: 19945
Date: 2003-03-17
> I did find this blurb by Mallory on the web and*****GK: Mallory is not quite up to date here: see
> dated to 2000:
>
> <<Readers may feel that the author has betrayed
> them down an endless series of cul de sacs.
> Nevertheless, this is the current state of research
> into Indo-European origins and this seemed the best
> way to convey why the issue is by no means resolved.
> Ultimately, we have a remarkably unsatisfactory set
> of choices. We can accept a Pontic-Caspian homeland
> despite the fact it still appears to be
> archaeologically undemonstrated, even under the most
> liberal canons of proof, in explaining the
> Indo-Europeans of Northern and Central Europe.