From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 22463
Date: 2003-06-02
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From: Michael J Smith
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 9:37 PM
Subject: [tied] irrelevence of race
> Why do some still think Indo-European Speakers="Caucasians". I still come
across this way of thinking in books, and it seems many still make this
connection.
I'd be surprised if they hadn't been "Europoid" in a rathert general sense,
but all speculation about their pigmentation or lack thereof seems
groundless to me. They were likely as mixed, racially, as most European
ethnic groups are at present. Anyway, IE is a _purely_ linguistic concept,
not a biological one.
Piotr