Re: NEW GUINEA AND ANATOLIA IN 7500BC

--- 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