Re: [tied] NEW GUINEA AND ANATOLIA IN 7500BC

From: P&G
Message: 20224
Date: 2003-03-23

>A standard anthropological explanation for the enormous number of languages
>in New Guinea is the absence of markets and market networks that would have
>canceled the isolation of these groups.

Wasn't the geography also a factor? Deeply divided valleys, heavily
wooded, making movement difficult. No wonder so many tribes or "tribelets"
developed. The PNG situation cannot really be compared to areas with a
rather different geography.

Peter