Re: [tied] GLEN AND ANATOLIA IN 7500BC

From: alex_lycos
Message: 20240
Date: 2003-03-23

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From: "P&G" <petegray@...>
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Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] GLEN AND ANATOLIA IN 7500BC


> > Egypt= Nil, Summer = Tiger & Euphrat, China= The Yellow River,
India=
> > Ganges and so on
>
> Why should the IE homeland be a big civilisation? And what's wrong
with
> the Black Sea (even in a reduced from), if you want water? Or the
Volga?
> Or Danube?
> Rivers are only necessary for big civilisations as a means of
> transport and quick communication. If PIE was a group of related
dialects
> arranged like slices of a pie over a steppe area, would they need to
be a
> "big civilisation"?
>
> Peter


:-) I have nothing against Volga or Danube. More, I will say Danube
should be the bigest river of Europa