Glen Gordon wrote:
> Now, let's slowly go backwards in time into the realms of pre-IE. So
> logically we would expect that all of Indo-European derives back to a
> single, tiny point in space-time, a kilometre in diameter. Therefore,
> we naively would conclude that all of IE-speakers belonged to one
> culture, maybe even one small band... WRONG!
Right, it can be wrong:-) IE could arise due the together
living/mingling of several tribes and ethnical groups, thus reducing to
a point from big to small ( in a logical way of course) as "the origin"
can be the naive issue you are talking about.
Just a simple question: Did you ever heard something in the mythology
you read about the reign of Saturn? How long was the reign of Saturn
what happened after he was dethroned , why his empire failed together
after the big war of his descendants ( see here even the Egyptian
mythology, the big war between Osiris and Typhon)
Of course this is mythology and thus "not scientifically" but the
hypothesis which are made by our brains are not better as the
mythological stories. The difference is that our hypothesis are mostly
in a short time dead, the mythological stories have been kept over
thousand of years.
Alex