Re: [tied] Re:Status of Hittite

--- Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> Based on my conceptions of where PIE came from and
> when its speakers
> moved in the way they did (all non-linguistic
> condiderations), I would
> say that the split between Anatolian and the Rest
> was ca. 5500 BC,
> with the rest splitting off from Balkan-Anatolian as
> the "Linear
> Pottery (LBK) folk" (differentiation of the Rest
> would already have
> started earlier, in the pre-stage of the LBK
> culture, the K�r�s
> culture of Hungary).
>
> Tocharian would have split off from the Rest not
> long after this
> (Dnepr-Donets culture, early 5th millennium?),
> moving into
> Mesolithic/Sub-Neolithic areas to the east of the
> LBK area, mixing in
> with (and apparently "Indo-Europeanizing") the
> original population of
> the forest-steppe and steppe (Uralic?, North
> Caucasian? speakers).

*****GK: The Pontic/Caspian IE homeland view, on the
other hand, would advance dates of ca. 4200 BC---> for
the Anatolian/Non-Anatolian split, archaeologically
coordinated with the spread of Novodanylivka-->
elements towards the Balkans (and their
Indo-Europeanization of earlier agricultural cultures
there), while the Tocharian/Non-Anatolian Rest split
would be dated ca. 3500--->, and archaeologically
coordinated with the eastward movement of
proto-"Afanasievo" peoples.******


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