Re: NEW GUINEA AND ANATOLIA IN 7500BC

From: ehlsmith
Message: 20219
Date: 2003-03-23

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

> Isolation for long periods of time is a lot easier to achieve in
the back
> bush of the Amazon or New Guinea than it is on the great plains or
along sea
> shores. But distance and sparsity of population can do the same
thing and
> there was the potential for a lot of distance between settlements
in
> mesolithic Anatolia. So I remain pretty comfortable with the
analogy.

Steve,

While I still think your analogy to New Guinea may err on the side of
exaggeration, I do agree that there may well have been plenty of
diversity in Anatolia at the time. Even if it was only 1/20th as
diverse as NG that would have meant a minimum of more than 50
different languages.

Regards,
Ned