Re: [tied] GLEN AND ANATOLIA IN 7500BC

Steve, you've made a very good point, I completely agree with you. I
don't think anyone can refute what you are saying, because, like you
said, no one knows the linguistic situation at that early date. I've
seen many make the poor assumption that non-Indo-European presence in a
general geographical area (lacking the politcal bounderies we know today,
we speak of "Anatolia" with somewhat defined geographical bounderies in
mind that are irrelavent to pre-history) automatically rules out early
Indo-European speech in that general area. Wherever Indo-European
originated (though different phases of its evolution surely took place in
different areas) it certainly must have been one of several or many
language families in the area.

-Michael

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:39:46 EST x99lynx@... writes:

> "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> (Thu�Mar�20,�2003)
> <<Steve, I've already explained my reasons both in terms of general
> logical
> reasons against an Anatolian pre-IE, as well as linguistic ones. You
> offer
> nothing on your end and use your ignorance to propose anything you
> like.>>
>
> Ignorance is not a bad thing to admit. Your problem is that you are
> as
> ignorant as I am about what went on in Anatolia in 7500BC, but you
> don't seem
> to know it.
>
> <<What you believe is not the general consensus.>>
>
> Glen, the flat earth was once consensus. Some people still are
> flat-earthers. I bet you are one of those hold-outs.
>
> <<Hattic is viewed as more autochthonous than the Anatolian
> languages.>>
>
> Okay, let's accept that for the time being. Remember what else you
> said --
> Hattic is attested nowhere else in the world. So that means Hattic
> could
> have been in Anatolia for a very, very long time - 10,000 years?
> Lots of
> time for Pre-IE to get there by 7500BC.
>
> <<Good luck in your research.>>
>
> Same here.
>
> Steve Long
>
>
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